Take a look at all of your paper cash. Notice one thing in common? Every bill has the face of a man on it. There are no women. This prompted a young woman to spring into action to change this omission.

President Barack Obama says a little girl wrote to him asking why there were no women’s faces on U.S. currency. After hearing the President mention that he thought that was a good idea, Barbara Ortiz Howard went to work to push for the idea. That started a movement by a group called Women on 20s, which is now conducting an internet poll to decide who should be the first woman to have her face on U.S. currency.

The poll at www.womenon20’s.com lists 15 women candidates to choice from. The thought process is to replace President Andrew Jackson, the founder of the Democratic Party, with a woman by 2020 – the 100th anniversary of the passage of the 19th Amendment that gave women the right to vote.

To make this happen legally, it will require an act of Congress to order the Secretary of the Treasury to make such a change. These are different times and President Obama has used executive orders frequently in lieu of getting what he wants from the legislative branch of government, and that’s just what Women on 20s is urging now.

Of the seven bills in current circulation, all feature portraits of either a former president or a founding father. Of the 15 candidates, the group is asking poll-takers to pick three. Here is their list. Is there someone not listed that you thinks deserves the honor? Let us know.

  • Betty Friedan‎
  • Rosa Parks‎
  • Shirley Chisholm‎
  • Barbara Jordan‎
  • Rachel Carson‎
  • Susan B. Anthony‎
  • Eleanor Roosevelt‎
  • Patsy Mink‎
  • Frances Perkins‎
  • Sojourner Truth‎
  • Alice Paul‎
  • Elizabeth Cady Stanton‎
  • Margaret Sanger‎
  • Clara Barton‎
  • Harriet Tubman‎

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