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Women, compared to men, are rarely depicted in statues. When you remove fictional women like Alice in Wonderland from those numbers, it gets even worse. That’s why San Francisco just passed an ordinance requiring 30% of of public art to depict nonfictional women. The initiative’s first new statue will be of Maya Angelou, a longtime SF resident.