A statue of the suffragist campaigner Millicent Fawcett has been unveiled in Parliament Square. It was created by Turner prize-winning artist Gillian Wearing, and depicts the suffragette at age 50, the age she became president of the National Union of Women’s Suffrage Societies. It is the product of a two year campaign by feminist Caroline Criado Perez, who went for a run through Parliament Square on International Women’s Day and noticed that all of the statues were men.
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The statue joins the 11 others in Parliament Square, all of which are men.