Domestic automakers accelerate employment of women

Press Trust of India

New Delhi: Homegrown automakers Tata Motors, Mahindra & Mahindra, Ashok Leyland and Hero MotoCorp are accelerating the drive to employ more women in shop floors as they press hard on the pedal to enhance diversity.

Once outsiders but no longer, thousands of women are now rolling out from two-wheelers to popular SUVs and heavy commercial vehicles across different factories of these companies. Tata Motors has over 4,500 women working in the shop floors across six manufacturing plants, including an allwomen line at its Pune facility with over 1,500 of them producing popular SUVs such as Harrier and Safari.

“We are an equal opportunity employer and believe a gender-balanced workforce leads to increased productivity, better decisions, enhanced collaboration, and more innovative ideas. Our focus is on enhancing diversity, especially on the shop floor and 25 per cent of all our new recruits are women,” Tata Motors Chief Human Resources Officer (CHRO) Ravindra Kumar GP told PTI.

He further said, “Today, over 4,500 women are actively engaged on the shop floors of our various plants. They exercise a wide range of functional capabilities on multiple products, from small passenger cars to heavy commercial vehicles.”