Sriperumbudur, 25/6: The two women standing near the entrance to the iPhone factory in Tamil Nadu were upset.
Parvathi and Janaki, sisters in their 20s, had come to the plant, run by major Apple supplier Foxconn, for interviews in March 2023 after seeing job ads on WhatsApp. But they had been turned away at the main gate by a security officer who stopped the…them and asked: “Are you married?” “We didn’t get the jobs as we both are married,” Parvathi later said in an interview at her village shanty.