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U.S. NEWS Tuesday 11 december 2018

Wall Street’s Fearless Girl statue gets new place of honor

By KAREN MATTHEWS
Associated Press
NEW YORK (AP) — The Fear-
less Girl is making her stand
outside the very temple of
American capitalism.
The hands-on-her-hips
statue that spent most of
the past two years staring
down Wall Street’s Charg-
ing Bull sculpture, becom-
ing a spunky symbol of fem-
inine empowerment, was
unveiled Monday at her
new permanent home, in
front of the New York Stock
Exchange.
“We’re honored to wel-
come Fearless Girl to the
very spot that has captured
the minds of business lead-
ers, innovators and entre-
preneurs,” Betty Liu, execu-
tive vice chairman of the
stock exchange, said at a
ceremony to reintroduce
the 4-foot (130-centime-
ter) statue. “You’re among
friends here at the New
York Stock Exchange.”
The statue was commis-
sioned by Boston-based in- The Fearless Girl statue is unveiled at its new location in front of the New York Stock Exchange, Monday, Dec. 10, 2018, in New York.
vestment fund State Street Associated Press
Global Advisors as a way
to push for more women better managed.” intended as a temporary Visitors to the stock ex- resentative.
on corporate boards. It “So for us, advocating for display but quickly gained change area said they There are only five statues
was originally positioned gender diversity is not some a fan base among tourists were glad to see Fearless of real historical women in
across from the Charging part of a political agenda. and locals who lined up to Girl there. public places in the city;
Bull, on a traffic island near It’s about our long-term pose for photos with her. “She’s out for battle,” said officials announced last
the tip of Manhattan, but performance agenda. This “She really captivated all New Yorker Theresa Smith, month that a monument to
was removed last month, is about value, not values,” New Yorkers,” said Rep. 45. “She’s going out for the pioneering congresswom-
in part because the admir- he said. Carolyn Maloney, a Man- big stuff. When you think of an Shirley Chisholm will be
ing crowds around the two Taraporevala said 301 hattan Democrat. “New the stock exchange, we the sixth.
sculptures were creating a companies that State Yorkers really did not want are talking money, we are “Having a young girl in a
hazard. Street identified as having to see her go.” talking New York City, we place of great male domi-
The bull will eventually rejoin no women on their boards Now, Maloney said, “in- are talking capital, and nance and power is ap-
Fearless Girl near the stock have added at least one stead of staring down the she’s headed to the top pealing because right now
exchange, but no date for since Fearless Girl made her bull, she’s going to be star- and she’s on her way.” it seems to me that women
the move has been given. debut in March 2017. State ing down all of business The reinstallation of Fearless still are invisible,” said Setha
State Street CEO Cyrus Street’s own 11-member right here in the center Girl comes as New York, like Low, a professor of anthro-
Taraporevala said compa- board has three women, and capital of business for other U.S. cities, is grappling pology at the Graduate
nies with female directors according to its website. America here in New York with questions of whether Center of the City University
on their boards “tend to be The statue was originally City.” its monuments are truly rep- of New York.q