Our Mission
The $50,000 Gift of Freedom Award is given every two years and is the largest grant of its kind to women in the United States
A Room of Her Own Foundation’s Mission is…
- To change the future by empowering women to bring their unique voices and perspectives to the marketplace
- To educate the broader community about the impact that women’s literature and art have had and will have on our society
- To build a community of moral support and practical resources designed to inspire, facilitate, and encourage women writers and artists
- To bridge the gap between a woman’s financial reality and her artistic creation
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Why We Do What We Do
- 14 out of 57 winners of the National Book Award for Fiction are women (2007)
- 14 out of 55 winners of the Pulitzer Prize for Fiction are women (2008)
- 21 out of 85 winners of the Pulitzer Prize for Poetry are women (2008)
- Women writer’s won 63% of the awards but less than 30% of the money in awards and grants reported by Poet’s & Writers (Jan/Feb 2003)
- In 2008 all but 10 of the Pulitzer Prize finalists for Fiction and Poetry were women
- Only 21 women have won writing awards in the 80 years of the Oscars (2007)
- Of the major artists represented by major New York galleries only 16% are women
- A recent study by the Coalition of Women’s Arts Organizations showed that in all one-person shows for living artists in American museums, only 2% of the featured artists were women
- A 1992 study that only 17% of artists in galleries nationally were women, whereas the Bureau of Labor indicated that 48% of professional American artists were women
- 51% of all visual artists are female and women hold 53% of art degrees, but 80% of art faculty members are male
- 68% of total art income in the U.S goes to men and 73% of all grants and fellowships in the arts go to men
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