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- A three-year Good Business Lab study with ACMA, supported by the Gates Foundation, found that men hold over 91% of shopfloor roles in India's automotive industry, with women making up just 8.7% of the combined OEM and component workforce.
- Women also earn about ₹70 for every ₹100 men earn and face barriers such as limited night-shift deployment, low awareness of hiring opportunities, and few women in engineering-ITI training.
- Some large firms are making progress, with JSW MG Motor, Tata Motors, and Hero MotoCorp employing thousands of women on factory floors, and ASDC and Hero MotoCorp planning to train 20,000 women.
- The report suggests that fixes like allowing candidates to bring a peer, assigning women supervisors, and portable skill records can boost women's hiring and retention at relatively low cost.
What to watch next
- Whether the ASDC-Hero MotoCorp initiative to train 20,000 women converts into actual shopfloor jobs
- Whether more manufacturers begin deploying women across all three shifts
- Whether tools like the Skills Passport spread beyond the two pilot plants at Chakan
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Named India · TeamLease · Automotive Component Manufacturers Association of India · Automotive Skills Development Council · Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation · Good Business Lab · Hero MotoCorp · JSW MG Motor India · Munira Loliwala · Tata Motors · Vinkesh Gulati
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