i am joined by our fiscal policy analyst stephanie nguen as well as a policy fellow ~ grace, grace fisher. excuse me. next slide, please. next slide, please. so, in terms of department history and framework, many of you are familiar with the [speaker not understood] all form of discrimination against women, an international bill of rights for women that condemocrats all discrimination against women and girls and ensures the equality in the civil, political, economic, social and cultural arena. in 1975 this body, the board of supervisors created the commission on the status of women. in 1994, the voters approved a measure to create a permanent department and a chartered commission. in 1998 san francisco became the first city in the world enacting principles of ceta. in terms of department mission, it is to ensure the equity witnessable treatment and foster advancement of women and girls in san francisco through policies, legislation and programs that focus on populations in need. we have three primary versus areas, women's human rights, violence against women and women in the workplace. ne