{"id":4533,"date":"2017-03-30T16:38:42","date_gmt":"2017-03-30T23:38:42","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/occupysf.net\/?p=4533"},"modified":"2017-03-30T16:43:11","modified_gmt":"2017-03-30T23:43:11","slug":"fearless-girl-statue-stares-wall-streets-iconic-bull-verena-dobnik-ap","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/occupysf.net\/index.php\/2017\/03\/30\/fearless-girl-statue-stares-wall-streets-iconic-bull-verena-dobnik-ap\/","title":{"rendered":"&#8220;&#8216;Fearless Girl&#8217; statue stares down Wall Street&#8217;s iconic bull&#8221; by Verena Dobnik (AP)"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"article-title\">March 9, 2017 (SFGate.com)<\/div>\n<div class=\"article-title\"><\/div>\n<div class=\"article-body\">\n<div class=\"asset_gallery\">\n<div class=\"hst-resgallery-container \">\n<div class=\"hst-resgallery-wedge\">\n<ul class=\"hst-resgallery\">\n<li class=\"hst-resgalleryitem\">\n<div class=\"img-wrap landscape\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"landscape\" src=\"http:\/\/ww4.hdnux.com\/photos\/57\/56\/44\/12511507\/3\/920x920.jpg\" alt=\"Shriya Gupta of Cherokee, N.C. strikes a pose with a statue titled &quot;Fearless Girl&quot;, Wednesday, March 8, 2017, in New York. The statue was installed by an investment firm in honor of International Women's Day. Photo: Mark Lennihan, AP \/ Copyright 2017 The Associated Press. All rights reserved.\" \/><\/div>\n<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"control-panel\">\n<div class=\"control-panel-inner\">\n<div class=\"control-bar\">\n<div class=\"control-bar-left\">\n<div class=\"control-bar-credit\">\n<p><em><span class=\"credit\">Photo: Mark Lennihan, AP. \u00a0<\/span>Shriya Gupta of Cherokee, N.C. strikes a pose with a statue titled &#8220;Fearless Girl&#8221;, Wednesday, March 8, 2017, in New York. The statue was installed by an investment firm in honor of International Women&#8217;s Day.<\/em><\/p>\n<p>NEW YORK (AP) \u2014 A new statue of a resolute young girl staring down Wall Street&#8217;s famous Charging Bull was erected by a major asset managing firm for International Women&#8217;s Day to make a point: There&#8217;s a dearth of women on the boards of the largest U.S. corporations.<\/p>\n<p>State Street Global Advisors, the Boston-based investment giant, had the statue created to push companies to increase the number of women directors.<\/p>\n<p>Artist <a href=\"http:\/\/www.sfgate.com\/search\/?action=search&amp;channel=news%2Fus&amp;inlineLink=1&amp;searchindex=gsa&amp;query=%22Kristen+Visbal%22\">Kristen Visbal<\/a>&#8216;s &#8220;Fearless Girl&#8221; drew crowds Wednesday that initially came to pose for pictures with the bull, but the novelty quickly became a New York hot spot.<\/p>\n<p>The girl is sculpted in bronze, her hands firmly planted on her waist, ponytailed head held high.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Know the power of women in leadership. SHE makes a difference,&#8221; reads a plaque at her feet.<\/p>\n<div id=\"pmad-04\" class=\"konafilter article01 pm-device\"><\/div>\n<div class=\"A300-placeholder collapse\">\u00a0&#8220;As a steward of nearly $2.5 trillion of assets, we want to engage with boards and management around issues that we think will drive core results,&#8221; said <a href=\"http:\/\/www.sfgate.com\/search\/?action=search&amp;channel=news%2Fus&amp;inlineLink=1&amp;searchindex=gsa&amp;query=%22Lori+Heinel%22\">Lori Heinel<\/a>, State Street&#8217;s deputy global chief investment officer. &#8220;And what you find repeatedly is having more diverse boards and more diverse senior management will actually drive better results for companies.&#8221;<\/div>\n<div class=\"A300-placeholder collapse\"><\/div>\n<p>Twenty-five percent of the Russell 3000 \u2014 a broad index of U.S. companies \u2014 have no women on their boards, according to State Street, which manages many of their assets.<\/p>\n<p>According to ISS Analytics, a business research firm, just 16 percent of board seats on companies in the Russell 3000 are held by women; the average board of directors has eight men and one woman.<\/p>\n<div id=\"pmad-02\" class=\"konafilter article01 pm-device\"><\/div>\n<p>&#8220;It&#8217;s going to happen to the end of time unless you change something,&#8221; says <a href=\"http:\/\/www.sfgate.com\/search\/?action=search&amp;channel=news%2Fus&amp;inlineLink=1&amp;searchindex=gsa&amp;query=%22Erik+Gordon%22\">Erik Gordon<\/a>, a lawyer and professor at <a href=\"http:\/\/www.sfgate.com\/search\/?action=search&amp;channel=news%2Fus&amp;inlineLink=1&amp;searchindex=gsa&amp;query=%22The+University+of+Michigan%22\">the University of Michigan<\/a>&#8216;s <a href=\"http:\/\/www.sfgate.com\/search\/?action=search&amp;channel=news%2Fus&amp;inlineLink=1&amp;searchindex=gsa&amp;query=%22Ross+School+of+Business%22\">Ross School of Business<\/a>. &#8220;It&#8217;s got to not just be the rules. It&#8217;s got to be the culture.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>State Street has three women on an 11-member board. Heinel said her company also will urge those in Great Britain and Australia to add women to their leadership.<\/p>\n<p>One man working in corporate America needed no convincing.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.sfgate.com\/search\/?action=search&amp;channel=news%2Fus&amp;inlineLink=1&amp;searchindex=gsa&amp;query=%22Chandrasekar+Sundaram%22\">Chandrasekar Sundaram<\/a> says a woman is the CEO of the company he works for in Texas, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.sfgate.com\/search\/?action=search&amp;channel=news%2Fus&amp;inlineLink=1&amp;searchindex=gsa&amp;query=%22Hewlett+Packard+Enterprise%22\">Hewlett Packard Enterprise<\/a>, and has quite a few women reporting to her.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;But when it gets to 50 percent, that&#8217;s when I think it&#8217;ll be right,&#8221; said Sundaram, a Dallas resident and native of India who was visiting New York with his family \u2014 with the Charging Bull as one of their stops.<\/p>\n<p>The mammoth bronze was a &#8220;guerrilla art&#8221; act, dropped in the middle of the night in Bowling Green Park in 1989 without permission, by an artist who created it as a symbol of Americans&#8217; survival energy following the 1987 stock market crash. The city gave its permission for the bull to remain.<\/p>\n<p>This week, McCann New York, a top advertising agency, installed the statue of the girl before dawn Tuesday \u2014 with a city permit for one week. Negotiations are underway for the piece to remain longer.<\/p>\n<p>Why choose the Charging Bull as the site to place the girl?<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Well, we really wanted the bull to have a partner, and a partner that we thought was worthy of him,&#8221; Heinel said. &#8220;And so we got a very determined young woman who is fearless and is willing to drive the change that we believe we need.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Sundaram&#8217;s 8-year-old daughter, Sankaribriya, got the message.<\/p>\n<p>She wanted to pose with the sculpted girl &#8220;because I just wanted to look at her and wanted to feel like her.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>___<\/p>\n<p>Associated Press Markets Writer <a href=\"http:\/\/www.sfgate.com\/search\/?action=search&amp;channel=news%2Fus&amp;inlineLink=1&amp;searchindex=gsa&amp;query=%22Marley+Jay%22\">Marley Jay<\/a> contributed to this report.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>March 9, 2017 (SFGate.com) Photo: Mark Lennihan, AP. \u00a0Shriya Gupta of Cherokee, N.C. strikes a pose with a statue titled &#8220;Fearless Girl&#8221;, Wednesday, March 8, 2017, in New York. 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