A statue of a fierce young girl is reminding companies to hire more women on Wall Street A statue of a fierce young girl is reminding companies to hire more women on Wall Street If you walk by the iconic statue of the charging bull in New York City’s Wall Street on International Women’s Day, you’ll see that the bull now has an small, fierce opponent.It comes courtesy of State Street Global Advisors, a $2.5 trillion asset manager. As part of a campaign to push financial companies to increase gender diversity, State Street commissioned a 50-inch bronze statue of a young girl with her hands on her hips as she defiantly stands up to the bull in front of her.Usually the bull is a popular tourist landmark, but today, throngs of media, curious tourists and New Yorkers on their lunch break were leaving it alone to get a look at the statue of the girl in its path.Reviews for the new statue are positive Lindsay Childress with her daughter Marie, a woman who asked to remain anonymous, said she didn’t tell her boss she was using her lunch break to go out and see the bull.
