‘Fearless Girl’ Gets Surrounded By Broken Glass Ceiling To Shatter Stereotypes
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Fearless Girl, a small yet powerful personification about beating the odds in male-dominated careers, had her spirit magnified against shards of broken glass on International Women’s Day.
The installation was accompanied by a plaque, reading, “Today’s broken glass ceilings are tomorrow’s stepping stones,” referring to the metaphorical “glass ceilings” or invisible barriers that women and minorities are forced to break through in order to succeed.
The statement, delivered by her commissioner, asset management firm State Street Global Advisors, marked the Wall Street statue’s fourth anniversary. The four-foot-tall Fearless Girl was set up on International Women’s Day in 2017 to encourage gender diversity in leadership roles.
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The stunt is reminiscent of a broken-glass Kamala Harris portrait installed at Lincoln Memorial celebrating her historic election as Vice President of the United States.
Cyrus Taraporevala, President and Chief Executive Officer of State Street Global Advisors, explained that the addition of the broken glass ceiling around Fearless Girl was inspired by women being expected to assume outdated domestic roles during the pandemic. “Despite great progress, this past year we have seen how the pandemic disproportionately affected women who had to leave their jobs to care for their families, as well as the negative impact on racially and ethnically diverse communities,” detailed Taraporevala in a blog post.
Taraporevala elaborated that the broken glass served as “a symbol of the new ground women are breaking every day.”
[via Time Out New York, images via various sources]
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