This is the website of the San Francisco Commission on the Status of Women. The Commission was established in 1998 when San Francisco became the first city in the United States to adopt an ordinance implementing the Convention on the Elimination of All Forms of Discrimination Against Women (CEDAW) locally, despite the nation's failure to ratify. This section of the city's website provides gender analysis reports (evaluating city departments through a gender analysis of budget, services and employment), annual progress reports, and links to other sources of information. [CEDAW Convention]