What are you people talking about? We already have Linda McCartney on our $20 bill, as well as Barbara Bush on the $1.
And Jack Benny on the $100.
Update: it’s been narrowed down to four. Harriet Tubman, Rosa Parks, Eleanor Roosevelt, or Wilma Mankiller. Mankiller wasn’t in the first round, and was added in to the finals because people wanted a Native American figure.
My vote goes to Tubman. Wilma Mankiller, IMO, isn’t nearly at the same level of historical importance as the others, and had she been in the first round, she wouldn’t have made it. Eleanor Roosevelt, while awesome, is intrinsically connected to her husband. I wavered a bit between Harriet Tubman and Rosa Parks, but let’s face it - this lady voluntarily left a safe home and went into territory where she could have been recaptured to save other people 13 times. If that’s not badass, I don’t know what is.
Given the current inequality in pay (0.8) perhaps it should be a $16 dollar bill with a famous woman on the bill.
Everyone who gets a $16 dollar bill in change will be reminded of that fact and we can change the denomination of the bill as we close the gap.
After considering all factors, it’s more like 5%.
Harriet Tubman won the unofficial contest: http://www.npr.org/sections/thetwo-way/2015/05/13/406452142/harriet-tubman-wins-unofficial-contest-to-be-on-20-bill
I think the final decision should be postponed until real mockups of the currency are available. The design needs to be considered as a whole and the engraving should be attractive. If not, back to the drawing board.
I still have bad memories of the Susan B. Anthony dollar coin, which was poorly executed.
A woman will be on the new $10, not $20, bill: A woman will be featured on the new U.S. $10 bill - Miscellaneous and Personal Stuff I Must Share - Straight Dope Message Board
Bad call. Alexander Hamilton had more influence on the development of the country than Andrew Jackson.
For anyone interested, the thread is here:
http://boards.straightdope.com/sdmb/showthread.php?t=845457
(I’ve been busy…)
How about J. Edgar Hoover in drag?
An “unknown soldier” type of Cherokee woman who froze and starved to death on Andrew Jackson’s signature achievement, the forced Trail of Tears, in order to bring north Georgia’s gold mines under white-man’s rule…
I thought Andrew Jackson’s signature achievement was killing a bunch of British after the war was over.
J. Edgar Hoover 
crap nvm, ninja’d above.
He also was the first secretary of the treasury which seems appropriate.
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