There's No Good Reason That Only Men's Faces Are on American Bills - Is There? Liz Dwyer - TakePart
go to original March 26, 2015

A Woman's Place Is on the Money (Women On 20s)

If your pocket’s stuffed with $100 bills, you’re all about the Benjamins. Have a fistful of $20s? You’re flush with Jacksons. But you’d have to travel all the way back to 1891, when $1 silver certificates featured Martha Washington, the wife of President George Washington, to find a woman’s portrait on American paper currency.

That’s why a new campaign, Women on 20s, hopes to change the man-heavy makeup of our money and put the contributions of notable ladies from United States history where we’ll always be reminded of them: in our wallets. According to the effort, women make 80 percent of the buying decisions in their households, but they’re spending cash without being represented on it.

As the campaign’s name suggests, the goal is to replace President Andrew Jackson’s portrait on the $20 bill with that of a notable American female. An executive order from President Barack Obama is all that’s needed to make it happen, but the campaign needs the public’s help in bringing the need for such a change to the president’s attention.

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