Seesaw of Gender Inequity
12 x 18
photograph on wrapped canvas
At the Medical University of Graz, Austria — an institution that has admitted women since 1900 and today hosts a Laura Bassi Centre of Expertise led by top-level female scientists — I encountered this sculpture and was stopped by its elegant simplicity in depicting a profound global truth. A seesaw. Two symbols. No words needed. That a medical school with such a history of supporting women would display this unflinching image of imbalance speaks to the work still unfinished. As the United States marks 250 years since the Declaration proclaimed “unalienable rights” for all, the seesaw has not yet leveled. This image is both a document and a question: how much longer?
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