you an example something that was pointed out during the meeting of the commission status of women merna who is the executive director of jamestown community center testified on the status of women upon hearing about this piece of legislation she asked her home sharing employee to prepare a report to understand whether or not their disparity of pay between men and women and we're talking about a pretty open-minded equal organization and even in that organization merna was surprised there's paid discrepancies she couldn't provide but for this law this was something she wouldn't have looked into we believe it will be the 88 same truth, in fact, the enequality exists by something people are not unconscious thinking about that will benefit not only san francisco workers but insure that san francisco continues to lead the way the same way we have on a number of issues we take the example of the domestic partner benefits owners we were the first city to require that those who contract with the city provide the same rights to the same sex couples it led to san francisco providing the benefits a

audience and also following this i think the culture of secrecy around description is something from the mernaork at jamestown to bigger entities like sf general this is to address it in an continental way with the recent package of the workers bill of rights that impacts immigrants and people of color it is a step towards equal pay i know there's a long way to go i want to thank supervisor campos and hillary for making us aware of the new mexico. executive order and the coalition of women's organizations that brought this forward for years and thank our strong wemgz leaders for keeping the pressure on this board and city hall to make sure we have wage equality and address sexism thank you. >> supervisor campos. >> thank you, mr. president i want to make one final .1 of the things that was moving for me in the process of working on this piece of legislation was seeing especially how some of the older women share their stories we heard in that chamber scombrain morrison who now in her nos talked about how the company that she worked for as a woman it was very clear she was never going to be pro