Feminine employees are making important strides on store flooring and in historically male-dominated roles at automakers, pushed by the adoption of superior applied sciences in manufacturing processes that demand precision dealing with, based on a report by the Financial Instances (ET). Apart from expertise, vehicle corporations have additionally taken energetic measures to rent extra girls. That is particularly evident in factories present process automation and adopting new robotics, electrical methods, and electronics applied sciences.
In the meantime, at MG Motor India, girls make up 34 per cent of the three,001-strong workforce at its manufacturing unit in Halol, Gujarat.
To draw and help feminine employees, corporations provide advantages like protected transportation, medical protection for IVF, and gender-neutral parental go away. Hero MotoCorp gives crèche services and a buddy system for returning moms, whereas Mercedes-Benz India ensures designated private areas and conducts month-to-month catch-ups to handle considerations and collect suggestions for enchancment.
Sooner or later, automotive corporations are aiming for 30-50 per cent illustration of feminine employees on their store flooring, ET added. This might considerably contribute to additional bettering the general feminine workforce participation.
In October 2023, the Feminine Labour Drive Participation Fee (FLFPR) elevated by 4.2 proportion factors to succeed in 37 per cent in 2023. Deloitte’s Blue Collar Workforce Developments Report 2023, launched across the identical time, reported feminine blue-collar workforce participation at eight per cent (1 in 12), in comparison with simply two per cent many years in the past. The report additionally highlighted that life sciences, automotive, and engineering design had been main within the gender variety ratio. This was pushed by a excessive diploma of automation, expert expertise requirement, premium pay, in addition to a shift in mindset.
First Revealed: Feb 26 2024 | 9:21 AM IST