{"id":415,"date":"2019-10-22T17:27:52","date_gmt":"2019-10-22T17:27:52","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/localhost:8456\/?page_id=415"},"modified":"2025-03-05T08:51:52","modified_gmt":"2025-03-05T16:51:52","slug":"get-facts","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/nmwa.org\/support\/advocacy\/get-facts\/","title":{"rendered":"Get the Facts"},"content":{"rendered":"\n\n<section id=\"subheading_block_5cce4fd041dfc7bce3b7b2d6030c5222\" class=\"subheading wrapper \">\n    <div class=\"subheading_text\">\n        Learn about gender inequity in the arts with some eye-opening facts.\n    <\/div>\n    <\/section>\n\n\n\n<section id=\"text-image-cta_block_3007486b53c8cd35ee364f32e877a7b7\" class=\"text-image-cta  large-offset-1 \">\n\n\t<div class=\"grid-x\">\n\t\t<div class=\"cell  large-6 text-side\">\n\t\t\t<div class=\"featured-title\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<h2>The Numbers Don&#8217;t Lie<\/h2>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t<div class=\"featured-copy\">\n\t\t\t\t<p>The truth is that women have never been treated equally in the art world, and today they remain dramatically underrepresented and undervalued in museums, galleries, and auction houses. Counting and quantifying won\u2019t solve discrimination, but statistics are useful for understanding the scope of the problem. As NMWA Director Susan Fisher Sterling says, \u201cPeople in the art world want to think we are achieving parity more quickly than we are.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\n\t\t\t<div class=\"cta-wrap  cta-standard\" >\n\t<\/div>\n\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<div class=\"cell  large-offset-1  large-5 image-side\">\n\n\t\t\t<figure class=\"image-container\">\n\t\t\t\t<img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/nmwa.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/12\/2000.144.24_40620.jpg?fit=1200%2C999999&#038;quality=80&#038;format=webp\" alt=\"A gray page features the statement \u201cYou\u2019re seeing less than half the picture without the vision of women artists and artists of color\u201d in big, bold, black letters. Below, in smaller text, it says \u201cPlease send $ and comments to: Box 1056 Cooper Sta. NY, NY, 10276,\u201d then \u201cGuerrilla Girls\u201d in the middle, and \u201cConscience of the art world\u201d to the right.\"\n\t\t\t\t\tsrcset=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/nmwa.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/12\/2000.144.24_40620.jpg?fit=400%2C999999&#038;quality=80&#038;format=webp 400w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/nmwa.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/12\/2000.144.24_40620.jpg?fit=800%2C999999&#038;quality=80&#038;format=webp 800w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/nmwa.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/12\/2000.144.24_40620.jpg?fit=1200%2C999999&#038;quality=80&#038;format=webp 1200w\"\n\t\t\t\t\tsizes=\"(max-width: 640px) 400px, (max-width: 1024px) 800px, 1200px\"\/>\n\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<figcaption class=\"caption\">Guerrilla Girls, <em>You&#8217;re seeing less than half the picture&#8230;<\/em>, from the series &#8220;Guerrilla Girls Talk Back:  The First Five Years, 1985\u20131990,&#8221; 1989; Photolithograph on paper, 17 x 22 in.; National Museum of Women in the Arts, Gift of Steven Scott, Baltimore, in honor of Wilhelmina Cole Holladay; \u00a9 Guerrilla Girls, Courtesy of www.guerrillagirls.com; Photo by Lee Stalsworth<\/figcaption>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/figure>\n\n\n\t\t<\/div>\n\t<\/div>\n<\/section>\n\n  <script>\n\twindow.ensureStylesheet && window.ensureStylesheet('https:\/\/nmwa.org\/wp-content\/themes\/nmwa\/dev\/dist\/css\/components\/two-col.css');\n  <\/script>\n  <noscript>\n\t<link rel=\"stylesheet\" href=\"https:\/\/nmwa.org\/wp-content\/themes\/nmwa\/dev\/dist\/css\/components\/two-col.css\">\n  <\/noscript>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"","protected":false},"author":8,"featured_media":0,"parent":1122,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"template-facts.php","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-415","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"acf":[],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v26.1 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/wordpress\/plugins\/seo\/ -->\n<title>Get the Facts About Women in the Arts | NMWA<\/title>\n<meta name=\"description\" content=\"Contemporary women artists around the world still face obstacles &amp; disparities. 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