The United States announced that it will put a female on its $10 bill beginning in 2020 - 100 years after implementing the 19th Amendment to the Constitution, which guaranteed women’s right to vote.

The $10 note currently features Alexander Hamilton, who was the first U.S. Secretary of the Treasury. The most appropriate woman to replace Hamilton has not yet been decided. The most important criteria is that the woman represent the country’s democracy. The last woman who was on the American $1 Silver Certificate from 1891 to 1896 was Martha Washington, wife of the first U.S. President George Washington and the nation’s first first-lady.

The government will conduct an online survey asking Americans who they think deserves to be featured. Americans can also use social networks to suggest any female who they think is most influential in the country’s history.

Last year, a girl in Massachusetts wrote a letter to U.S. President Barack Obama asking why there are no females on the country’s currency. Obama considered her idea “impressive,” and this may in part have helped the movement to feature a woman on U.S. currency.

Tony Jang
Staff Reporter
(tonyjang@timescore.co.kr)