Source: TIME
After realizing that only two of the 87 statues in San Francisco that honor pioneers and leaders are representative of females – including U.S. Senator Dianne Feinstein and nursing pioneer Florence Nightingale – a pair of legislative aides to the city’s board of supervisors took it upon themselves to improve female representation.
Kanishka Karunaratne and Margaux Kelly are urging San Francisco supervisor Mark Farrell to introduce an initiative that would commit the city to increasing its representation of females in statues, street names, and public art, by at least 30% by 2020.
One of its first projects would include a $500,000 statue of poet and civil rights activist, Maya Angelou, to be placed in the city’s library.
TIME reported that after the violent incidents in Charlottesville, cities across the U.S. are joining a national movement to improve representation of positive figures and have considered removing Confederate memorials.
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