18 2021 ESG REPORT THE BIG PICTURE EMPOWERING WOMEN ENABLING OPPORTUNITY ENRICHING COMMUNITIES GOVERNANCE PROGRAM SPOTLIGHT Gap Inc., along with BSR (Business for Social Responsibility), HERproject, CARE International, and ILO-IFC Better Work, founded Empower@Work in 2019. Leveraging our P.A.C.E. program, Empower@Work harnesses the power of collective action to deploy sustainable, systemic, and scalable programs that empower women workers, embed gender equality in business practice, and catalyze policy and systems change by aligning women’s empowerment training and skill-building efforts across the apparel industry. Since its launch, Empower@Work GOALS BY 2025 has published an open-source P.A.C.E. COMMUNITY FACILITATORS VENTURE Worker Training Toolkit that is INTO LOCAL POLITICS recognized as a best-practice curriculum 100% for women’s empowerment training of our strategic Critical skills gained through P.A.C.E. Women in India also used their P.A.C.E. in the apparel supply chain. In 2021, factories8 will gave Florah Magwa the confidence to training to pursue election. In January Empower@Work focused on creating invest in women‘s run for a special position to represent 2021, 167 participants in the program a robust implementation and impact empowerment through women in her local government council were elected to the panchayat (regional model that seeks to drive market change participation in in Tanzania. Initially, Florah didn’t believe assembly) in Maharashtra state, with and influence the wider ecosystem Empower@Work9 that she had the skills or confidence to fourteen elected as sarpanch (decision- to make lasting, positive changes for Establishing baseline stand in front of people and ask for their makers), who are the focal point of women workers. votes. But after P.A.C.E., she decided to contact between government officers run against 25 other women and was and the village community. In 2022, we plan to develop a strategy 100% among seven selected to represent to transition our P.A.C.E. in the Workplace of Athleta and Gap brand women in the Musoma District. “If it program to Empower@Work. factories will participate were not for these interventions, I in Empower@Work probably would not be where I am today and where I aspire to be in the future,” Establishing baseline said Florah. 8. Factories representing 80 percent of our total business spend (defined as: Purchase Order first cost). 9. We will measure performance against our Empower@Work target by assessing the percentage of factories with at least 50 percent enrolled female workers. We will further assess the extent to which factories are institutionalizing Empower@Work as part of their HR management processes, including how they introduce it to workers and demonstrate commitment to the program from the top levels of management.