Statues For Equality proves how immediate change for gender equality can happen. With the addition of the 10 statues in NYC, the number of female statues of women went from 3% to 10% overnight!

The New York project is just the start of Statues For Equality and the initiative is now worldwide, with projects starting in many different countries, including Australia, the UK, and the US. As the project expands, it will include a broader diversity of race, class, ability, sexual orientation, and gender expression, celebrating all the differences found in women-kind.

Gillie and Marc are the founders of this project but it is not theirs to own. Statues For Equality involves the entire world so it belongs to everyone. Gillie and Marc cannot do this alone, they need your help!

The public are the best people to decide who should be honored with a statue. With already over 1 million nominations, the public are once again asked to again nominate the next women that they think deserve the recognition of being immortalized in bronze!

There is also a call for corporations, cities, towns and anyone else who has a public place to become a part of history and host the next Statues For Equality.

Finally, the call has also gone out to all artists, sculptors, and creators to get involved and help them to create the hundreds of statues still to come. Gillie and Marc desperately need the talent of the artistic community to jump on board if they are to reach gender equality in public art.

Sculptures inspire. They illustrate history, and they express stories of achievement that motivate generations.

Everybody can be a part of this global movement. Help Gillie and Marc continue their mission to balance gender representation in public art by hash-tagging #StatuesforEquality and nominating the next woman you’d like to see immortalized in bronze!