Page 7 - AT
P. 7

A7
                                                                                                 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
   2   3   4   5   6   7   8   9   10   11   12