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The Smithsonian now houses the largest collection of statues of women ever assembled
Take a walking tour through the statues of any major city and you will be hard-pressed to find many women immortalised in bronze or marble. While history was busy paying tribute to the achievements of old white men, the Smithsonian Museum in Washington, DC has built an army of 120 innovators and scientists. The life-size orange statues that make up the #IfThenSheCan exhibit include Dr Jessica Nicole Esquivel, one of only 150 Black women in the US with