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What the 'Fearless Girl' statue and Harvey Weinstein have in common

  • Written by Sarah Banet-Weiser, Vice Dean, Director of the School of Communication and Professor of Communication, University of Southern California, Annenberg School for Communication and Journalism

In March of this year, State Street Global Advisors unveiled the “Fearless Girl,” a statue of a little girl installed to face Wall Street’s famous “Charging Bull” statue. Her defiance was aimed at financial culture’s historical exclusion of women in the financial industry, especially in leadership positions.

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