ep. 6: How to Break the Bronze Ceiling

More than 90 percent of American public statues are dedicated to dudes — a monumental gender gap that persists around the globe. Today, Cristen and Caroline talk to Diane Carlson Evans about her hard-won campaign for the first National Mall memorial to women veterans and why breaking the bronze ceiling is a battle worth fighting.

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Resources

• Organizations

  • Central Park: Where Are the Women?

  • Equal Visibility Everywhere

  • Invisible Women

  • Monumental Women

  • Put Her on the Map

  • The Whole Story

  • Womanchester Statue Project

• In the news

  • Sojourner Truth and Rosalie Jones are getting statues in New York

  • Bronze versions of Susan B. Anthony and Elizabeth Cady Stanton are coming to Central Park

  • An Indiana veterans' group is pushing to recognize women in bronze

  • Millicent Fawcett will break the bronze ceiling in London

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