Push for gals on a pedestal

New Yorkers are getting a chance to correct a historical disparity by nominating a woman to be honored with a statue in the city — where 90 percent of monuments are now dedicated to men.

“Finding monuments that honor women should not be a scavenger hunt,” said city First Lady Chirlane McCray, who announced the project at Bryant Park.

“The number of women, both known and unknown to history, worthy of recognition in New York City and New York City’s public spaces is endless — which makes their exclusion so egregious and our campaign to honor them so urgent.”

The initiative, known as “She Built NYC,” will allow the public to submit the names of women who are no longer living, events that occurred at least 20 years ago, or women’s groups.

Submissions can be made online at women.nyc through Aug. 1.

A 19-member advisory panel chaired by city Records Department Commissioner Pauline Toole will then whittle down the nominees to a handful.

The winning honoree will finally be selected by the Department of Cultural Affairs and announced in January. The monument will be paid for out of a $10 million fund at Cultural Affairs.

Among the names officials floated were writer and activist Audre Lorde; Shirley Chisholm, the first African-American congresswoman; and Frances Perkins, the first woman appointed to a president’s Cabinet. She served as secretary of labor between 1933 and 1945.

“In Central Park, there are 22 monuments to men and one — to Alice in Wonderland,” said Deputy Mayor Alicia Glen, who joined McCray.

“Not even a real woman, you know? Give me a break! Enough is enough!”

Central Park even has a statue of a dog, Balto.

It’s not clear now where the new statue will be placed.

The initiative comes in the wake of Mayor de Blasio’s creation of a monument-review committee that studied statues to remove or revise across the five boroughs.

Ultimately, only a single statue — of controversial physician J. Marion Sims — was relocated, from Central Park to Green-Wood Cemetery in Brooklyn.

The number of women . . . worthy of recognition in New York City . . . is endless. Chirlane McCray