Maya Lin’s The Women’s Table was commissioned in 1989 in order to celebrate the 20th anniversary of coeducation at Yale College and to commemorate women at Yale. Lin wanted to depict both the future addition and previous rejection of female students with this piece. Beginning in the center of the piece, there is a long string of numbers spiraling outwards towards the edge starting with 0 with each number representing the number of women enrolled at the university. The numbers span the years from 1701 to 1992 (the year before the sculpture was completed). This piece is a historic landmark at Yale boldly commemorating women and revealing the issue of gender discrimination at a nationally revered institution.