If Women Had Their Own Currency, Here’s
What It Would Be Worth
Charlotte Alter @charlottealter Maya Rhodan @m_rhodan July 31,
2014
After a little girl asked President Obama why there
aren’t any women on U.S. currency, he said that adding some female faces to our cash sounded like a
"pretty good idea". Almost immediately, all of our fantasies came alive on the web. What would, let’s
say, Ruth Bader Ginsburg look like on a $20 bill? Where would we spend our Beyoncé $10 bill first? Will
our grandmas give us a Susan B. Anthony $5 bill on our birthdays and tell us not to spend it all at once?
But then we remembered: because of the wage gap, a
dollar for a woman is not the same as a dollar for a man. Although the true extent of the gender pay
gap is widely disputed even among feminists, President Obama said in the 2014 State of the Union that
women make only 77¢ for every dollar a man makes.
Disponível em: http://time.com. Acesso em: 18 ago. 2014
(adaptado).