{"id":465710,"date":"2026-03-09T09:58:09","date_gmt":"2026-03-09T09:58:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/465710\/"},"modified":"2026-03-09T09:58:09","modified_gmt":"2026-03-09T09:58:09","slug":"steel-man-statue-to-make-way-for-new-female-sculpture-in-hanley","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/465710\/","title":{"rendered":"Steel Man statue to make way for new female sculpture in Hanley"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Ashworth said: &#8220;Women were often the backbone of the ceramics industry \u2013 decorating and finishing some of the world&#8217;s most iconic pottery, often without the recognition or pay that men received.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">&#8220;For every Clarice Cliff or Susie Cooper, there were hundreds of women whose names we don&#8217;t recognise but whose skill and labour made this city what it is.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">At the start of the 20th Century, women made up nearly half of the workforce in the local pottery industry, according to the local authority.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Women&#8217;s roles were often overlooked, underpaid and undervalued &#8211; with men taking on the most skilled and lucrative positions.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">The relocation and the new ceramics statue, first announced in July 2025, would be funded by Goodwin at no cost to the public, the council said.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">No details about the statue that is set to replace the Steel Man have yet been announced.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Ashworth said: &#8220;Women were often the backbone of the ceramics industry \u2013 decorating and finishing some of the&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":465711,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[31],"tags":[6225,6485,6486,1120,96,56,54,55],"class_list":["post-465710","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-arts-and-design","tag-arts","tag-arts-and-design","tag-artsanddesign","tag-design","tag-entertainment","tag-uk","tag-united-kingdom","tag-unitedkingdom"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/465710","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=465710"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/465710\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/465711"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=465710"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=465710"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=465710"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}