Key Points
Kavya is one of thousands of workers assembling iPhonesthe most recent models in red, yellow, blue, purple, white, blackat the huge Foxconn factory in Tamil Nadus Sriperumbudur..
In Sriperumbudurs success lies the story of two competitions: the Western worlds push to turn India into a counter to China; and Tamil Nadus own heady growth story that could leave much of northern India behind...
And it has the talent to match: of Indias 1.6 million female factory workers, 43% are in Tamil Nadu..
With its history of industrialisation, Tamil Nadu could act quickly, because it has already invested in infrastructure and enacted land and labour-related policies, which it could easily offer to global capital, said Madhumita Dutta, assistant professor at the Ohio State University, who has extensively studied the Nokia plant in Sriperumbudur...
In Tamil Nadu, which has the highest female labour force participation in India among large states, the labour force participation was preceded by a number of policy measures for gender equalityfrom measures to prevent female infanticide, all-women police stations, dedicated buses for women..
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