It is located at the fork of Calle Marina and Calle Mayor Cantera, in Ponce, Puerto Rico, next to Parque Urbano Dora Colón Clavell, in Barrio Cuarto.

"[3] With the turn of the century, the role of women in Puerto Rican society had advanced dramatically.

The statue is 6 feet (1.8 m) high and was forged in Santo Domingo, Dominican Republic.

[4] It consists of a young woman with her right arm stretched up high and holding a small depiction of the globe of the Earth on her hand.

The dedicatory plaque on the monument has an inscription that reads (Note: English translation is not part of the inscription, and it is given here to the right): The statue is the work of Puerto Rican sculptor María Elena Perales Guzmán,[5] who is also the sculptor of the busts of Simón Bolívar, Juan Pablo Duarte, José Martí, and Luis Muñoz Marín, at the Plaza de los Proceres Latinoamericanos (Plaza of Latin American statesmen) in Parque del Tricentanario at Bulevar Miguel Pou in Ponce.