Women Sweep Redesigns of $5, $10 and $20 BillsWomen Sweep Redesigns of $5, $10 and $20 Bills; New York Times, 4/20/16

Jackie Calmes, New York Times; Women Sweep Redesigns of $5, $10 and $20 Bills:

"In advance of Mr. Lew’s decision, the emotion that the Treasury initiative had prompted was captured in a letter to the Treasury secretary on Tuesday evening. More than three dozen women including actors, feminists, corporate executives and journalists objected to preliminary news reports that he was planning to renege on putting a woman on the $10 face, calling it, if true, “a major blow to the advancement of women.”

They admonished the Treasury secretary, saying: “ Could there be a better metaphor for second-class status that continues to limit our girls?”

The signers included the actresses Ellen DeGeneres, Geena Davis, Jane Lynch and Sophia Bush; the former soccer star Abby Wambach; former Representative Gabrielle Giffords, the Arizona Democrat who became a gun-safety advocate after an assassination attempt; the news media figures Katie Couric and Arianna Huffington; the feminist leader Gloria Steinem; and the photographer Annie Leibovitz."