IRONIC: Group pushes to get woman's face on 20 dollar bill
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By Mona Austin
To commemorate the 100th anniversary of women's suffrage (or the 19th Amendment, which granted women the right to vote) an activist group has launched a campaign to replace Andrew Jackson's face on the 20 dollar bill with the face of a woman by 2020.
The group has recommended 15 women in history as possible candidates like slave emancipator Harriett Tubman, suffragist Elizabeth Cady Stanton, Founder of the Red Cross Clara Barton, and abolitionist Sojourner Truth. Susan B. Anthony was on American one dollar gold coin so long ago that most people forgot. That coin went out of production.
Their goal is to get President Obama's attention. The campaign has gone viral with 80,000 signatures. If they reach 100,000 signatures the White House must respond.
Why do they want to use the $20 bill as opposed to the $100 bill? Because it is the most commonly used bill. The second and more pronounced reason the $20 is the target of the change is due to the man whose portrait currently occupies it. Many find it ironic that Jackson was ever printed on a bill because he was opposed to paper currency and the central banking system.
The greater irony is that this effort comes at the height of American womens' fight for wage equality. Women's concern is to get more money in their pockets for performing the same amount of work as men for less pay. Although the W20 campaign is a strong symbolic gesture, the movement for fair wages takes precedent to it. Besides, society is headed in a paperless direction as more and more people make purchases electronically. It might be more practical to get the faces of all 15 women on a credit/debit card.
Bottomline: Women want the government to show them the money before they show their faces on the money.
Click here to meet all of the candidates in the 20/20 campaign.
By Mona Austin
To commemorate the 100th anniversary of women's suffrage (or the 19th Amendment, which granted women the right to vote) an activist group has launched a campaign to replace Andrew Jackson's face on the 20 dollar bill with the face of a woman by 2020.
The group has recommended 15 women in history as possible candidates like slave emancipator Harriett Tubman, suffragist Elizabeth Cady Stanton, Founder of the Red Cross Clara Barton, and abolitionist Sojourner Truth. Susan B. Anthony was on American one dollar gold coin so long ago that most people forgot. That coin went out of production.
Their goal is to get President Obama's attention. The campaign has gone viral with 80,000 signatures. If they reach 100,000 signatures the White House must respond.
Why do they want to use the $20 bill as opposed to the $100 bill? Because it is the most commonly used bill. The second and more pronounced reason the $20 is the target of the change is due to the man whose portrait currently occupies it. Many find it ironic that Jackson was ever printed on a bill because he was opposed to paper currency and the central banking system.
The greater irony is that this effort comes at the height of American womens' fight for wage equality. Women's concern is to get more money in their pockets for performing the same amount of work as men for less pay. Although the W20 campaign is a strong symbolic gesture, the movement for fair wages takes precedent to it. Besides, society is headed in a paperless direction as more and more people make purchases electronically. It might be more practical to get the faces of all 15 women on a credit/debit card.
Bottomline: Women want the government to show them the money before they show their faces on the money.
Click here to meet all of the candidates in the 20/20 campaign.
