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Aside from issues of inequality (for all reasons), most often, we who are committed to "committing art" subscribe to the proposition that our work should stand alone against the standards for measuring its worthiness, divorced entirely from considerations of who you are, whom you studied under, who your patrons are, where you hail from, etc., etc.
Every time an "unknown" or "emerging" artist's work is passed over in juried exhibits, in competitions or in galleries for reasons that append personality and associations, it is the cause of "art" that suffers. Still, such influences are the substance of prestige and reputation, and it's how the world turns. I especially like those words of wise counsel favoring having abilities and self-confidence in them . . . regardless what one's personal situation may be.
Currently in this country, there are more women than men who identify themselves as artists. Logic would seem to prove through simple mathmatics that in the first decade of the 21st century in America, more women than men are producing the top-tier paintings. I think that's easily proven on these boards.
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