I note that there’s a certain amount of resistance to tossing Alexander Hamilton out, particularly considering that Jackson is coming to be viewed as a more douche-y character these days.
However, in light of the fact that Hamilton’s days are numbered, no matter what we do, how about making the woman Rachel Faucette?
Couldn’t we compromise by keeping Alexander Hamilton, but as he would look if transgender?
He’d be a pretty woman. Not that that is the most important thing, but lets face it, he’s pretty much the only looker we have on our money.
I vote Betsy Ross and the American flag on the back. 
Except that whole story about her is almost certainly bogus. We’ve even visited her home in Philadelphia, and the keepers freely admit the whole thing is bogus.
Shirley Chisholm, the first African-American woman elected to Congress.
I kept meaning to post a thread vote-off, like the Greatest Military Leader thread, for this question. I have it saved as a draft but I haven’t had enough time to finish assembling all the potential names and wiki links to them. 
Maybe this weekend, I’ll have a chance to integrate the suggestions from this thread in and kick it off.
Why not J Edgar Hoover in a dress for the $10?
In period hair and dress, of course. I wouldn’t want him to look silly,
Well, that probably is the price on the street for a J Edgar Hoover in a dress.
How about just the statue of liberty?
Or just a symbolic native american?
What would be the point? To honor womanhood as a concept, or to honor native Americans in general?
We used to do things like that with our coins: the Indian-head (AKA “buffalo”) nickel, the Liberty dollar, the Indian-head cent. . . I think the last of these was the Walking Liberty half-dollar, which was last made in 1948. We put real people on our money now.
The treasury has asked the public which historical woman they should honor by putting her on the ten-dollar bill. I think it would come across as mildly insulting to conclude the search by settling on a generic figure instead of someone specific.
A situation where the men on money are real men with accomplishments but the women are totally fake or nameless and symbolic is not really any better at all.
There have been many millions of real women (including real Native American women) in the United States. Picking one of them is not so hard that it requires expanding the definition of “woman” to include statues.
What, A French woman? :eek:
Only if you didn’t spend most of a decade writing COBOL code…
I agree.
I thought it was already decided – “a woman on the 20 in 2020”. But instead we’re giving Jackson a pass and replacing Alexander Hamilton, who probably deserves to be better known than he actually is.
Update
And **BobLibDem **called it. Others too, probably.
CNN Money reports Hamilton will stay on the $10, though the reverse will be reworked. And a woman will replace Jackson on the $20. Announcement possibly this week.
As to that $10 bill, “a mural-style depiction of the women’s suffrage movement – including images of leaders such as Susan B. Anthony – will be featured on the back of the bill.” So maybe we will see some of the other women mentioned in this thread.
Maybe Jackson could have gotten a reprieve if he’d gotten his own hit musical, too…
Already tried. It closed after 120 performances.
Jackson being booted is great news. Brilliant choice of removal as he was an ignorant choice to start with.
Only if they use this picture:
http://lapostexaminer.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/12/Hedy-Lamarr-1944-630x310.jpg