The apparel industry are not doing enough to promote gender equality - according to the Gender Baseline Report

In september 2020 the The World Benchmark Alliance released the Gender Baseline Report which looks at the gender data disclosure of the world’s 36 most influential apparel companies. They look at gender strategies throughout the whole supply chain. We all know that gender equality is one of the key principles to achieve sustainable development and the apparel industry employs 60-75 million people and 2/3 of these people are women.

The report shows that gender strategies implying the whole chain from production to market is often missing. Most gender disclosure companies have only address the legal requirement and the report says there’s not enough proactive actions to transform the industry.

Further only 40% of the information asked for where available, which is a transparency problem. 33% of the companies had committed to promote gender equality, however strategies where still lacking and the report states that true leadership for gender equality is lacking in the industry.

The companies that has been included in the report are companies such as Adidas, Amazon, H&M, Nike and Urban Outfitters. You can read the full list here and each company’s result.

A Sustainable Closet is certain that sustainable fashion and a sustainable fashion industry has to be one that is gender equal.