Editing Androcentrism (section)

== The arts ==

In 1985, a group of female artists from New York, the [[Guerrilla Girls]], began to protest the under-representation of female artists. According to them, male artists and the male viewpoint continued to dominate the visual art world. In a 1989 poster (displayed on NYC buses) titled "Do women have to be naked to get into the Met. Museum?" they reported that less than 5% of the artists in the Modern Art sections of the Met Museum were women, but 85% of the nudes were female.<ref>{{cite book | title = Guerilla Girls poster 1989 | archive-url = https://web.archive.org/web/20131125204514/http://www.guerrillagirls.com/posters/getnaked.shtml | archive-date = 25 November 2013 | url = http://www.guerrillagirls.com/posters/getnaked.shtml | publisher = [[Guerrilla Girls]] | access-date = 17 March 2011}}</ref>

Over 20 years later, women were still under-represented in the art world. In 2007, Jerry Saltz (journalist from the New York Times) criticized the Museum of Modern Art for undervaluing work by female artists. Of the 400 works of art he counted in the Museum of Modern Art, only 14 were by women (3.5%).<ref>{{cite news | last = Saltz | first = Jerry | author-link = Jerry Saltz | title = Where are All the Women? On MoMA's Identity Politics | work = [[New York (magazine)|New York]] | url = http://nymag.com/arts/art/features/40979/ | date = 18 November 2007 | access-date = 17 March 2011}}</ref> Saltz also found a significant under-representation of female artists in the six other art institutions he studied.<ref>{{cite news | last = Saltz | first = Jerry | author-link = Jerry Saltz | title = Data: Gender Studies. Is MoMA the worst offender? We tallied how women fare in six other art-world institutions | work = [[New York (magazine)|New York]] | url = http://nymag.com/arts/art/features/40980/ | date = 17 November 2007 | access-date = 17 March 2011}}</ref>