There's now an online petition to make the Wall Street girl statue permanent.
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There's now a petition asking New York City's mayor to make a statue of a girl on Wall Street permanent
Mayor Bill de Blasio previously said that the statue of a defiant girl in front of the Wall Street bull would stay in place until April 2.
Earlier this week,
I'm signing because, as a woman, I felt like such an outsider in the corporate world," one woman wrote underneath the petition.
The petition had close to 7,000 signatures by 10:20 AM ET on Friday, March 10.
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In a tweet, the mayor previously said that the statue would remain until April 2. That lines up with the timeline that State Street had shared with the public. A company spokesman previously told Business Insider that the statue would stay in place for up to a month.
Business Insider has reached out to the mayor's office and State Street to see if there has been any change in plans. Neither immediately responded with an answer.
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