so in terms of work place you will hear a little bit more from our policy director ann lehmas who is going to step in for someone who had a last minute something come up but we launched this initiative together with cal vert investments and a human rights monitoring organization to help our employers create gender equitable work places, and for that work ann and i went to miland italy to receive an award from the italian government for the international work life balance award. we also work for working mothers. we working on lactation accumulations and guidelines in what employers have to do with moms and accommodating them and we're are putting together a brochure on family leave policy. next slide. the other area where we do a lot of work is in antiviolence against women. commissioner shorter chairs our panel on domestic violence reform and from the year 2000 a brutal homicide of a san francisco mom by her ex-boy, mr. raer ez. there have been recommendations. we did audits and it's been a wonderful collaboration with the criminal justice agencies. as a city we invest $3 million ann

amy allison is the outreach director and ann lehmas our policy director and we have a grant administrator and we're lucky to have interns and fellows interesting several people at this time and unfortunately [inaudible] couldn't be here tonight so ann lehmas is going to step in and say a few words about our very latest initiative. >> so we're launching a new initiative next monday with the mayor at 1130. you're all welcome to come in room 416 and it's called the gender equality challenge and what it is we're basically asking san francisco businesses to enter their model practices that create gender equality in the work place. now we are focusing this first year on large companies, but we do have any number of small companies that work on our council. we have a child care center and a advertising agency that are both very small companies that work with us on this, and we expect that in the near future like next year we hope to look at different sizes, but the first year we're launching this and basically the thought is if we take the model practices and share them both in forums and roundt