India, March 19 -- A Mumbai-based CEO of a healthy noodle brand revealed that a woman hired for a senior role asked him to meet her husband before accepting the job. Vinod Chendhil said that this request on the woman's part led to her "instant" rejection.

"Spoke to a candidate today, who wanted us to meet her husband after we had selected her. Instant reject," Chendhil, the founder and CEO of Naturally Yours, revealed on X. He clarified that this woman had been selected as a "senior level hire".

The Mumbai-based CEO expressed disappointment at the candidate's request, seeing it as a sign of excessive dependence on her husband. In a follow-up tweet, he said that the woman wanted her husband to "interview" the CEO to determine whether the...