23 2021 ESG REPORT THE BIG PICTURE EMPOWERING WOMEN ENABLING OPPORTUNITY ENRICHING COMMUNITIES GOVERNANCE Gender-Based Violence (GBV) Our GBV Prevention and Response Digital Wage Payments Prevention and Response Program focuses on training managers We work closely with partners and participate in the UN’s Over the years, our regular facility and workers as a key part of our Better Than Cash Alliance to address ongoing regulatory assessments have revealed violations strategy. In 2021, we set a goal of and infrastructure constraints on digital wage payments. related to gender-based discrimination ensuring that all our factories have We continue to prioritize digital wage payments with and harassment. We recognize that it’s GBV training, prevention, and response new Tier 1 suppliers and support financial inclusion more not enough to rely solely on auditing to systems in place by 2025. By 2023, 96% broadly by offering digital financial literacy sessions in our detect and address these issues, which we aim to ensure that all workers P.A.C.E. curriculum. is why we developed our GBV Prevention in factories where our clothes are of our eligible and Response Program with Better produced undergo GBV prevention and Tier 1 suppliers Since starting our Digital Wage Program in 2017, we have Work to help enforce our zero-tolerance response training annually. (that provided increased the share of our eligible Tier 1 suppliers that policy on physical, psychological, and data) offer offer digital wage payment systems from 68 to 96 percent sexual harassment. Looking ahead, we will further assess digital wage (which includes mobile wallets, bank accounts, debit cards, the extent to which factories have a payments and other digitally accessible methods). functioning grievance mechanism for workers to report incidents of GBV, harassment, and abuse. To have an impact beyond the facilities we work with, we are also exploring partnerships to further accelerate this work across the industry with expert organizations and other major apparel brands. GOAL BY 2025 PROGRESS IN 2021 100% 44% of our factories will have prevention of our factories have started and response management training on GBV Prevention and systems and trainings in place to Response, reaching over 231,500 address gender-based violence workers (26% of our supply chain) Establishing baseline 90% of our factories had completed gender awareness training for middle and top management