Quote: GandlerSo? We should be forced to pretend to respect a plethora of under-qualified and under-educated women in positions of power and management because of historical inequalities?
We pretend to respect underqualified and undereducated men in postions of power and management, too.
Quote: DieterWe pretend to respect underqualified and undereducated men in postions of power and management, too.
We shouldn't. But the difference is nobody is every saying "we need more men in insert position here", people are so eager to increase the percentage of women in various fields, that they will push obviously unqualified women in fields simply because they are a woman, and they will get storms of applause.
Quote: BozSo if a woman is on it, is it only worth $7.30?
If it's a black woman, $6.
Quote: GWAEI am annoyed that the government, which is in debt, thinks that they need to spend time and money on getting a new face on the bill. I can not imagine how much they are spending in order to make this change.
The picture change will probably cost less than you salary. The real cost is all the anti-counterfeit measures that need to be placed in the new bills. The bill is scheduled to be redesigned/updated in 2020, no matter who is on the bill even if it stays Alexander Hamilton.
Coretta Scott King
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I, myself, think Jefferson should replace Hamilton, who can go to the 2 dollar bill. Jefferson was the finest mind of his time and the architect of our success. Jackson can be replaced by somebody. So far, Abigail Adams is the best suggestion IMO - have you read the correspondence between her and John? She was the inspired and resolute one; he was the mouthpiece. Eleanor Roosevelt is a good one; so is Edith Wilson, who WAS the President for many months in the 1910's. Harriet Tubman is another good choice.
Rosa Parks sat down because her feet hurt. I respect her resolve, but I don't revere her contribution except as a focal point for change.
I also would very much like a good etching of Lady Liberty (in close-up) as a non-partisan choice. I can't look at her without at least a little lift in spirit.
That's a canard: "People always say that I didn't give up my seat because I was tired, but that isn't true. I was not tired physically, or no more tired than I usually was at the end of a working day. I was not old, although some people have an image of me as being old then. I was forty-two. No, the only tired I was, was tired of giving in." -Rosa Parks: My Story.Quote: beachbumbabsRosa Parks sat down because her feet hurt.
She was probably the number one woman in the civil rights movement. Either her or Coretta King.
Quote: teddysThat's a canard: "People always say that I didn't give up my seat because I was tired, but that isn't true. I was not tired physically, or no more tired than I usually was at the end of a working day. I was not old, although some people have an image of me as being old then. I was forty-two. No, the only tired I was, was tired of giving in." -Rosa Parks: My Story.
She was probably the number one woman in the civil rights movement. Either her or Coretta King.
Fair enough. Doesn't change my mind about her, but I appreciate the correct info from her first-person narrative.
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I also would very much like a good etching of Lady Liberty (in close-up) as a non-partisan choice.
But she's French. Bleh.
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Quote: FaceBut she's French. Bleh.
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Point well taken. However, she was a gift (as are all females), so that rules. :)