Gap scored a 95 out of 100 on the 2023-2024 Corporate Equality Index (CEI) from the Human Rights Campaign (HRC), a political stakeholder group. By complying with Human Rights Campaign’s controversial demands, Gap increases the risk of dividing employees, alienating customers and harming shareholders. It also uses sex and gender ideology criteria in employee recruitment, vendor selection, marketing, and philanthropic support. Gap forces employees to undergo multiple ideological trainings and uses its reputation, corporate funds, and political influence to support controversial sex and gender ideologies, organizations, and legislation. Gap provides a benefits package for employees which covers travel/lodging costs for an abortion and transgender medical procedures for covered employees and dependents, including children. Gap mandates its employees complete racial equity and unconscious bias training. The company supports the Equality Act and transgender participation in youth sports. Gap used its reputation to oppose prohibiting teaching gender identity and sexual orientation in school to kids in K-3rd grade. The company opposed various state and local legislation intended to protect parental rights, girls’ sports, bathroom facilities, and gendered spaces. Gap signed an amicus brief in opposition to the 2016 North Carolina bathroom bill HB2, which required people to use the bathroom of their biological sex. The company is a Ceres Network Member, committed to carbon neutrality by 2040. Gap is a member of the MCCA, indicating its focus on recruiting, retaining, and promoting employees based on race. The company partnered with artists to create a Pride Month collection and has a partnership with UN Free & Equal. For these reasons, Gap Inc. receives a High Risk rating.