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Gender Equity

Across the garment industry, 60% of workers globally—and nearly 80% in some regions—are women. At Nordstrom, we are using our scale to promote gender equity in our supply chains to advance a safer, fairer workplace.

Through our Gender Equity program, we target three priorities:

Freedom from gender-based violence and harassment at work
Freedom from discrimination at work
Access to equal leadership opportunities at work

We know gender equity is a complex, locally nuanced topic, which is why we partner with organizations that can bring their expertise to supply chain initiatives to drive industry-wide change.

RISE

Reimagining Industry to Support Equality is empowering women garment workers, embedding gender equality in business practices and inspiring cross-industry, system-level change. We are an active RISE partner and launched the RISE Respect program to prevent and remediate gender-based violence and harassment with some of our India-based supplier factories.

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Impactt Limited

Recognizing the interconnected nature of social issues, together with Impactt Limited, we have explored the intersection between forced labor and gender-based violence and harassment. We have benchmarked various human rights themes to identify the greatest risks across our sourcing regions. This insight helps enhance our annual gender equity programming, ensuring it addresses our main risks and remains relevant to our operations.

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Better Work

We are long-standing partners of the Better Work program to promote decent working conditions for garment workers. We have also supported Better Work to advance gender equity across the industry more widely. This includes helping it develop an interactive tool that enables brands to prevent and effectively respond to supply chain instances of gender-based violence and harassment. We also helped Better Work turn their Prevention of Sexual Harassment program methodology into an easy-to-use implementation guide.

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