courtesy of Instagram/@handmaidsonhuluFilm & TV / NewsFilm & TV / News140 female statues have appeared in NYC to promote The Handmaid’s TaleHulu’s one-day art show bridges the gap between the five existing female statues and 145 male onesShareLink copied ✔️June 8, 2019June 8, 2019TextThom Waite The Handmaid’s Tale is back on Hulu for a third season and, to market the new run of episodes, the streaming service organised a large-scale art show in New York City. Specifically, it installed 140 mirrored statues of female figures at Madison Square Park’s Flatiron Plaza. The reasoning behind the project is a slightly depressing one, reflecting the theme of gender inequality in the dystopian show based on Margaret Atwood’s novel. The new female statues were placed to make up the difference between the city’s already-existing male and female statues. Yeah, of 150 commemorative statues, only five are currently female. “We thought that it was really unfortunate and a stat that should be brought to light, given history and the countless ways that women have helped shape our country and fought for equality,” says Michal Shapira, senior vice president of news content partnerships and ad sales for Ignite at WarnerMedia, to Adweek. Alongside the statues, which were up yesterday (June 7), actresses wearing the iconic red dresses and white bonnets of the handmaids handed out flyers about gender disparity by two of NYC’s female statues, including one for Gertrude Stein. Unfortunately, the whole project only ran for a single day, but hopefully the awareness it raised will inspire positive change. Organisations such as women.nyc have already pledged to build monuments celebrating female achievement, but with such a big gap a bit of help definitely can’t hurt. Expand your creative community and connect with 15,000 creatives from around the world.READ MOREGetting to the bottom of the Heated Rivalry discourseMarty Supreme and the cost of ‘dreaming big’Ben Whishaw on the power of Peter Hujar’s photography: ‘It feels alive’Atropia: An absurdist love story set in a mock Iraqi military villageMeet the new generation of British actors reshaping Hollywood Sentimental Value is a raw study of generational traumaJosh Safdie on Marty Supreme: ‘One dream has to end for another to begin’Animalia: An eerie feminist sci-fi about aliens invading MoroccoThe 20 best films of 2025, rankedWhy Kahlil Joseph’s debut feature film is a must-seeJay Kelly is Noah Baumbach’s surreal, star-studded take on fameWatch: Owen Cooper on Adolescence, Jake Gyllenhaal and Wuthering Heights