Gap Inc’s first standalone Equality and Belonging (E&B) report summarizes Gap’s initiatives to end racism in the company. As per Sourcing Journal, the report offers a complete breakdown of ethnicity and gender representation throughout the company globally for the 2020 fiscal year. Though Gap Inc. has publicly reported global employee gender data and overall US race and ethnicity data since 2013, the Black Lives Matter movement in 2020 revealed the need for more detailed information.

Only 4 per cent employees at the company’s headquarters are identified as Black, and 10 per cent identify as Latinx and 26 per cent of employees are Asian. The company has employed more Blacks and Latinx at the store level. Around 27 per cent store employees have been identified as Latinx and 19 per cent Blacks. Six per cent store-level employees are identified as Asian.

The company reports similar disparities at the gender level. Only 58 per cent of its female employees are designated as vice presidents and C-level employees, despite women representing 76 per cent of its total employees. The report notes that the company was founded in 1969 by Doris and Don Fisher, who each held the same equity stake—during a time when women were often left out of financial and professional conversations.