More women enter auto manufacturing as Tata Motors, Hero, MG accelerate gender diversity drive
Tata Motors, which currently has over 3,000 women operating on its shop floors across its six plants in India in different roles for production of a range of vehicles from small passenger cars to heavy commercial vehicles, plans to add even more women in its factory workforce
Source | economictimes.indiatimes.com | PTI
Women are storming the male bastion in automotive manufacturing harder as firms like Tata Motors, MG Motor, Hero MotoCorp NSE 0.84 % and Bajaj Auto accelerate the drive for gender diversity at shop floors.
Tata Motors, which currently has over 3,000 women operating on its shop floors across its six plants in India in different roles for production of a range of vehicles from small passenger cars to heavy commercial vehicles, plans to add even more women in its factory workforce.
Similarly, MG Motor India plans to achieve a gender-balanced workforce wherein women would account for 50 per cent of its overall workforce, including in factories, by December 2023.
Currently, women comprise 34 per cent of the company’s factory workforce of 2,000 at Halol plant, in Gujarat.
