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Victoria s Secret Falls Short on Gender Equality Despite Rebranding Move
By Ali McCadden, Zenger News
On 6/29/21 at 7:30 PM EDT
Victoria s Secret parent company L Brands scored 17 out of 100 on a 2021 Gender Benchmark index published Tuesday, despite the underwear retailer s high-profile abandonment of its Angels catwalk show and its new slate of diverse models.
The research from the World Benchmarking Alliance evaluated how 35 of the world s largest apparel companies addressed the U.N. s fifth Sustainable Development Goal: increasing gender equality and empowering women.
L Brands ranked 27 out of the 35, with a score of 17, some 12 points below the industry average.
With scores of 53.9/100, Gap, which also owns Banana Republic, Athleta and Old Navy, and VF Corporation known for The North Face, Vans shoes and Timberland topped the list. Adidas was next with a 50.1 score, and Levi Strauss & Co and Target rounded out the top five at 47.3.
U.S. Blocks Uniqlo Shirt Shipment for Chinese Slave Labor
19 May 2021
The Chinese government on Wednesday denounced U.S. Customs officials for blocking a shipment of shirts from Japanese casual wear designer Uniqlo because they violated a ban on slave-picked cotton from China’s Xinjiang province.
The shipment was impounded January 5 at the Port of Los Angeles, but the action did not become major news until Reuters reported it Wednesday.
The report cited customs documents dated May 10 that said the shirts were seized due to a suspected violation of the ban on forced labor, and a protest filed by Uniqlo’s parent company Fast Retailing was denied.
China’s president, Xi Jinping, declared back in 2014 in a series of speeches delivered in private to officials that he intended to crack down harshly in Xinjiang, the north-western region of China where about 13 million Uyghurs and other Turkic Muslims make up half the population. The reality of that “strike hard against violent extremism” campaign, which followed decades of repressive policies, is now clear: Chinese authorities are committing.