Gap Inc. Announces Landmark 2025 Goals to Drive Women’s Empowerment in Its Supply Chain
2021年3月15日 - 10:00PM
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As part of celebrating Women’s History Month, Gap Inc. is
pleased to highlight the significant milestone that over 800,000
women and girls have completed the P.A.C.E. (Personal Advancement
& Career Enhancement) program. Gap Inc.’s P.A.C.E. program was
founded in 2007 on the belief that all women deserve the
opportunity to reach their full potential. Today, it is on track to
achieve the ambitious goal of reaching 1 million individuals by
2022, operating in communities and factories in 17 countries where
our clothes are made.
Participants in the P.A.C.E. curriculum often say that the life
skills taught in the coursework have an immediate and tangible
positive impact on their lives. Thi Thu Ha Ngyuen, who lives in
Vietnam and is employed at the Vina Kyung Seung factory's finishing
division, said that the life skills learned through P.A.C.E. helped
her to express herself more confidently in daily life. “When I
started to feel more confident as a woman, my life changed,” Nguyen
said. Through P.A.C.E., Ha learned to better communicate with her
family and express her need for assistance from her husband while
establishing her career, managing a household, and raising two
young daughters in a rural community. This is one story among
thousands that demonstrates how P.A.C.E. gives women who make our
clothes the knowledge and tools to change their lives.
Building on the momentum and success of P.A.C.E., Gap Inc. is
joining forces with Business for Social Responsibility, ILO-IFC
Better Work, and CARE to launch Empower@Work. This shared platform
leverages its knowledge, skills, and networks to drive collective
action to benefit women workers and gender equity in global supply
chains. Empower@Work will focus on building and deploying
sustainable, systemic, and scalable programs that promote gender
equity in global supply chains.
“Gap Inc. is proud to be a founding member of Empower@Work,
recognizing the opportunity it presents to reach millions of women
with proven programming and tools they can use to uplift themselves
and their families for generations to come,” said Mary Beth
Laughton, President and CEO, Athleta. “To reinforce this
commitment, Athleta and Gap brand are taking steps to have all the
factories from which they source participate in Empower@Work
women’s empowerment training by 2025.”
One of the most devastating impacts of COVID-19 has been that
working women worldwide are more likely to lose their jobs and bear
the burdens of family support during the global pandemic. In the
strategic factories where Gap Inc. clothes are produced, most
positions are held by women and people of color, the same segments
of the population most impacted by COVID-19. That's why Gap Inc. is
committed to investing in the women who make our clothes through
landmark goals focused on women's empowerment and gender
equity.
Gap Inc. is announcing its broader investment strategy in
women’s empowerment, committing that by 2025:
- 100% of our strategic factories are participating in
Empower@Work.
- Athleta and Gap brand have also committed 100% of their
factories to participating in Empower@Work by 2025.
- 100% of our strategic factories have achieved gender parity at
the supervisor level.
- 100% of workers employed in our strategic factories will have
their voices heard through gender-equitable workplace
committees.
- 100% of our factories will have prevention and response
management systems and training to address gender-based
violence.
These goals build on our longstanding collaboration with expert
stakeholders to support gender equity in the apparel supply chain
and are supported by Gap Inc.’s Supplier Sustainability programs.
Our goal of achieving gender equity at the supervisor level in all
of our strategic factories will be driven by our Supervisory Skills
Training program. Similarly, our goal of having workers’ voices
being heard through gender-equitable and representative workplace
committees will be managed through our Workplace Cooperation
program. Both programs were developed in partnership with ILO-IFC
Better Work.
More about Gap Inc.’s Supplier Sustainability
programs
In partnership with expert stakeholders, suppliers, and industry
partners, we have developed a suite of programs that aim to support
female garment workers, worker representation, worker voice and
leadership involvement. Our life-skills program, P.A.C.E., gives
women training and support to advance in their professional and
personal lives. Initiatives such as our Workplace Cooperation
Program and Workforce Engagement Program—which we developed with
Better Work and Verité, respectively—focus on maturing relations in
industrial facilities and providing functioning grievance
mechanisms while also measuring and improving the degree to which
garment workers feel valued and engaged at work. Lastly, our
Supervisory Skills Training program seeks to improve communication
and dialogue between supervisors and workers in our factories. In
addition to our cornerstone programs, we manage or participate in a
broad set of initiatives that address country-specific labor
issues.
For more information about our commitment to advancing worker
voice and women’s empowerment in the workplace, please visit
https://www.gapincsustainability.com/people/improving-factory-working-conditions.
About Gap Inc.
Gap Inc., a collection of purpose-led lifestyle brands, is the
largest American specialty apparel company offering clothing,
accessories, and personal care products for men, women, and
children under the Old Navy, Gap, Banana Republic, Athleta,
Intermix, and Janie and Jack brands. The company uses omni-channel
capabilities to bridge the digital world and physical stores to
further enhance its shopping experience. Gap Inc. is guided by its
purpose, Inclusive, by Design, and takes pride in creating products
and experiences its customers love while doing right by its
employees, communities, and planet. Gap Inc. products are available
for purchase worldwide through company-operated stores, franchise
stores, and e-commerce sites. Fiscal year 2020 net sales were $13.8
billion. For more information, please visit www.gapinc.com.
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