History. Women in our communities who are courageous leaders since 1996 the San Francisco commission and department on the status of women has recognized the vital role and contributions of woman in our communities so at this time before we begin to recognize some of the amazing women that are here in the audience today, i want to acknowledge emily the executive director welcome to the board of supervisors chamber. Thank you president breed im very pleased to be here for womens History Month were here to celebrate and recognize women in our communities working to improve the lives of all San Francisco i san franciscans. It is the 11th consecutive year. The National Theme this year is weaving the stories of the womens lives. Before we begin i just wanted to share with the board some very exciting news. As you all know San Francisco was the first city in the world enacting a local ordinance for all forms of discrimination against best of my women and this was made possible by San Francis
The survivors do we blame ourselves before others start the blame game. But she was there just to listen without judgment and ended upcoming with me me to the hospital, to the police and to the court. I want to recognize Janelle White the executive director and everyone. Thank you for your transformative social work and the hope that you give to all survivors that cross your threshold that they will not just survive but they will survive and i believe is evelyn here . If all of the staff would come up. I would be expecting the entire organization to come up. And i just want to also note with a little sadness that Janelle White was going to be here today but she called our office this morning and she received annie conviction notice shes been a leader but this is an epidemic in our city and region as we move our nonprofit workers to eviction and were just not meeting the cost of living here and i want to thank you for continuing to do this work and recognizing how important it is for me
The United States is one of only 4 countries in the World Without paid Maternity Leave the struggle continues because even though women control 90 percent of the household spending, we are still only 4 percent of fortune 500 ceos and the struggle continues even though women are the majority in our country and even though women, female Congress Members bring home an average of 49 million more dollars into their districts as do their male counter parts, were still only 18 percent of Congress Even though women were granted the right to selfdetermination a long time ago there were 468 bills introduced in state legislatures restricting Womens Health and access to reproductive rights. Shockingly there are zero bills restricting a mans right its still a struggle to gain the respect the dignity and the wage that we merit and deserve until women have the same rights as men in the political social and economic spheres the struggle will continue and im privileged to be grooming an army of strong
Colleagues support and i thank the courageous survivors and you can witness some some of the amazing advocates yourself. And i also want to recognize supervisor tang a cosponsor of this resolution and the rest i submit. Thank you supervisor kim so now it is time for our 3 00 p. M. Special order so we are going to abandon roll call temporarily in order to honor some Pretty Amazing women in our city today im extremely pleased to welcome you all to the San Francisco board of Supervisors Chamber for our womens History Month celebration which is a time to recognize the efforts of some amazing women in our citys history. Women in our communities who are courageous leaders since 1996 the San Francisco commission and department on the status of women has recognized the vital role and contributions of woman in our communities so at this time before we begin to recognize some of the amazing women that are here in the audience today, i want to acknowledge emily the executive director welcome to t
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