2022 Report Highlights
Our analysis shows that women are still vastly underrepresented, compared to men, in public spaces across San Francisco, only averaging 14 percent of representation in public property, less than half the City’s goal of 30 percent representation. Specifically, we found that women were represented in 21 percent of art pieces, 7 percent of street names, 30 percent of building names and 24 percent of park names. This low level of representation is particularly problematic because it demonstrates that there has been very little progress toward the City’s goal over the past few years, with only slight tangible increases since our last report was published in 2020. To hit the goal of the Ordinance in every category, the City would need to add 21 pieces of art, 200 streets and 14 parks named solely after women. Further, while building names have met the goals of the Ordinance, there would need to be 35 new buildings named after women to accomplish true parity between men and women.