They are ready to spend up to 50 million DKK to commission new statues of women who made an impact on Danish society. The ministry will establish a committee to decide which women will be honored.
- There are 321 human statues in public space, of which only 31 honor a woman.
- In a poll made by DR, the most mentioned names of women that should be honored with a statue were: seismologist Inge Lehmann (discovered the Earth’s inner core); author Karen Blixen (writer of the “African Farm” book); sculptor Anne Marie Carl Nilsen (initiator of the Society of Women Artists); former Prime Minister Helle Thorning Schmidt (Denmark’s first female Prime Minister); former lord mayor of Copenhagen Ritt Bjerregaard; former Minister Nina Bang (Denmark’s first female Minister); Queen Margrethe II; Countess Danner (her house is today Dannerhuset – a women’s crisis centre); former Minister Bodil Koch (created the movement Folkevirke, which aimed to educate and mobilize Danish women to participate in political life); and zoologist Marie Hammer (discovered 1,000 new species and 150 new genera).
