CURRENCY GENDER PARITY?: Treasury Secretary Jack Lew has confirmed that a woman will grace the $10 bill beginning in 2020. The $10 bill has heretofore exclusively displayed the portrait of Alexander Hamilton, and he is apparently going to continue to appear in some capacity, as yet to be determined. The identity of the woman has not yet been revealed but there are some clues:

The only criterion under law is that the chosen person must be dead, but the Treasury said Mr. Lew was looking for a woman “who was a champion for our inclusive democracy.” That would include the abolitionist Harriet Tubman, who was the top choice on social media of a campaign to put a woman on the $20 bill.

Other names being floated include Susan B. Anthony, Eleanor Roosevelt, and Rosa Parks. Lew will make the final decision on who will grace the currency, and the Treasury Department is continuing to solicit public input over social media with the hashtag #TheNew10.

I kind of feel sorry for Hamilton. He was a key founder–one of three authors of the Federalist Papers–the first Secretary of the US Treasury, and the most ardent proponent of the first National Bank. Now he’s being downgraded, in a sense, due to political correctness.