Summary booklet has been for policy research and for women and families. They have shared those families. Aew is not the only organization that is fighting for this transition. Our partners includes the emergency Civil Liberties union, the equal rights advocates, california womens law center, and gender justice. Theres an effort to address this issue and i appreciate the acknowledgement today on gender payday. Thank you all so much. Id like to like to acknowledge our cochair of Public Policy roberta who has been a driving force in Public Policy for aew. Everybody has said frg everybody has said everything i wanted to say. Take a bite on out of that candy bar if youre not allergic to peanuts and that bite will represent what women endure everyday. Being equal payday, what it means that today is the day that women on average will have earned the same as what it took men in all of last year to earn, so it takes us extra three months plus a few days so were never catching up. That doesnt j
Impactful ful on our families. Equal payday has been celebrated as the Public Awareness campaign and to mark this day, president obama announced a pair of executive actions that will hopefully strengthen the enforcement of equal pay for women. One of them will band federal contractors for retaliating employees for discussing their pay. I want to take a moment and thank aew which is a wonderful organization that empowers women and who has been doing so for over 130 and aew has been organizing events all over the country on equal payday. This is an organization that i worked with washington d c years ago and their San Francisco chapter has been involved in education, research, and fa falanthropy. They draw a tense and awareness to young girls in our city and in our country, so on the occasion of the 2014 equal payday, on behalf of our board of supervisor, like to command ae work for raising awareness and for all of your efforts in the payday. Thank you supervisors and thank you president