In 2018, County of Santa Clara County Supervisors began a conversation about how women are represented in public spaces.

In 2020 the Office of Women’s Policy launched an effort, entitled Womanhood, that will explore ways to honor woman’s historic contributions to this region and beyond.

Womanhood is an arts-centered public recognition project that launches this year during Women’s History Month. As we celebrate the second century of Women’s Suffrage in the United States, Womanhood will commission countywide artist-designed-projects and places that reflect our communities and recognize the women whose lives have molded this region and the world. We look to uncover and tell the stories for, by, and about woman across all intersectional identities including BIPOC (Black, Indigenous, People of Color), women of color, LGBTQ+ women, transgender and nonbinary identities, women who express and feel freely and fluidly, and women across all diverse languages, abilities, status, and immigration backgrounds. We acknowledge that this region was originally occupied by the Ohlone and Muwekma Ohlone people.