A woman's place is on the dough

By 2020, a woman will finally be right on the money — literally. A remake of the $10 bill will include a portrait of a woman and although a man, Treasury Secretary Jacob Lew, gets the final say on who that woman will be, he's open to suggestions. So let's take him up on the offer. There are some great contenders for the coveted spot on the $10 bill — Clara Barton, Eleanor Roosevelt, Sally Ride, Harriet Tubman, and Susan B Anthony just to name a few. There's also civil rights activist Fannie Lou Hamer and Shirley Chisholm, the first black woman to be elected to Congress. And let's not forget Rosa Parks - by refusing to give up her bus seat to the white man in 1955, she sat and stood up against inequality not from some great platform but just as a citizen tired of injustice. And how can you read Sojourner Truth's 1851 speech "Ain't I a Woman?" and not consider her for the currency? "I could have ploughed and planted, and gathered into barns, and no man could head me! And ain't I a woman? I could work as much and eat as much as a man — when I could get it — and bear the lash as well! And ain't I a woman?" And fans of Alexander Hamilton need not despair, for the woman on the $10 bill will have to share the space with Alexander Hamilton. In a release, the Treasury Department said Lew has "made clear" that the image of Hamilton will remain in some way as part of the new banknote. They could do what Australia does and have a man on one side and a woman on the other. But back to America's initiative: who will be on #thenew10?