A city panel narrowly approved the first Central Park monument dedicated to women — despite criticism the statue wrongly links three suffragettes at opposite ends of the movement.

Six of nine members of the Design Commission green-lit the bronze and granite statue of Susan B. Anthony, Elizabeth Cady Stanton and Sojourner Truth Monday. Six affirmative votes are required for approval of public artwork.

“As we all know the park has statues of Alice in Wonderland, Mother Goose, Juliet with Romeo, lots of angels and nymphs but no real women until now,” said Pam Elum, head of the nonprofit Monumental Women that started fundraising for the tribute six years ago.

The panel’s other three members abstained from the vote.

The trio — Brooklyn painter Hank Willis Thomas, Queens artists Mary A. Valverde and architect Laurie Hawkinson — did not return messages seeking comment.

At a September meeting, Thomas suggested building monuments to suffragettes to replace two of the existing 23 male statutes in the park, including Christopher Columbus and Scottish poet Robert Burns.

Critics nixed the original design that included just Anthony and Stanton, claiming the exclusion of African American pioneers like Truth ‘white-washed’ history.

“Is a Planned Monument to Women’s Rights Racist?” asked a columnist writing in the New York Times in January.

Proponents addressed the criticism by overhauling the proposal to include Truth, an abolitionist and women’s rights icon.

That generated a furor of its own as others complained it inappropriately linked the civil rights activist to Anthony and Stanton, who belittled African Americans and made them stand in the back at rallies.

The end result is the proposed 14-foot high monument, which shows the three women seated around a table speaking and writing — while hinting at the tensions between the suffragettes.

For instance, Truth’s hand is raised off the table to indicate tension and engagement, according to preservation activist Todd Fine.

“I got a lot of input from many different sources on this project, much of it conflicting, much of it contentious,” sculptor Meredith Bergmann said at a press conference Monday celebrating the Design Commission vote.

“I am confident now that the monument will work,” Bergmann said.

The $1.5 million statue will be installed at Central Park’s Literary Walk, near 70th Street.

It will be funded largely from private contributions including donations from Girl Scout cookie sales. The city will kick in $135,000.

The statue’s unveiling is set for August 2020 to commemorate the 100th anniversary of the ratification of the 19th amendment, which gave women the right to vote. It’s also the 200th anniversary of Stanton’s birth.

Historians and activists praised the changes and the new final design.

“As for your revised statue design, thank you for the impressive changes,” Cornell University history professor Margaret Washington wrote to Bergmann.

“You have indeed rendered Sojourner more actively engaged with Stanton in the statue. As I said previously, it was both disempowering and ahistorical to have Sojourner using only one hand to express herself,” Washington added in her letter.

Stanton’s great, great-granddaughter Coline Jenkins also praised the new statue at the Monday’s vote.

“I think what’s really interesting is as we advance the idea of E Pluribus Unum, out of many we are one, and that’s the beauty that there are many ideas, many methods, many backgrounds that have created a concept of a nation and what we are as people,” Jenkins said.