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92% vs 8%, this has to change !

So, I wrote a couple of things about the $ and the € and today I wondered about one specific thing. Why almost 92% of the faces on the banknotes are of men and only 8% of women? 
I thought of this because Romania takes in consideration to join the € party (switching from LEI to €) from 2024 which is not a good thing for us, making us to look even poorer :)  1€=4.6 LEI !! The second thing that made me to write about this is that in Romania people are disgusted of coins, using most of the time banknotes. 
Coins in Romania are not like € cents, but more like $ cents - small and insignificant :)
On the other side, € coins are valuable, 2 coins of 5 € each are 10 LEI:  a cab fare, a lunch at the office, a bike rental for 24 hours, a phone charger that you can acquire at the traffic lights, etc. 
Banknotes, the people`s weapon/aid in life. We all know more or less about our history heroes, including female-heroes - yes, there is a lot of women-power in the books and that`s about it. Most of the countries prefer to put dead men on the banknotes instead of women. In Romania we do not have female faces on our banknotes as well as many other countries, until now! I discovered this: femeipebancnote.ro, and it is mind blowing in the good way!
Here you can sign the on-line petition in which you can choose your favourite female character from the Romania history to be placed on the new 10 LEI banknote. Until now, after 20444 votes, Queen Mary is in the lead, followed by Queen Elisabeth and on the 3rd spot is Ana Aslan!!! You go girls !! 
I will take my vote after this is posted :)
OK, queens are queens and they deserve it, but who is Ana Aslan? - I know but you don`t, so I am going to tell you! Long story short she came up with the GEROVITAL H3 treatment that used to be bought by, hold on to your seats, John F. Kennedy, Salvador Dali, Charles de Gaulle and many other iconic figures. Women deserve to be on banknotes, of course they do, so Australia is doing the next best thing by choosing a creative solution. They decided to put a man on one side and a woman on the other side. This is going somewhere but it is to little in the whole 195 countries that are on this planet. 
Looking back in the history of the world there are a lot of  women that made big changes / progress / discoveries. 
If somehow GOD is a woman, I hope that she will be very kind to all of us! :)

P.S: Also in America they are discussing to put one iconic women figure on the 10$ bill. But like in America, they say something today and DO something tomorrow, or the day after tomorrow, or the next year, by 2020.


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