U.S. prints its first currency with two women's signatures on it
U.S. Treasury Secretary Janet Yellen will honor fellow pioneers when she presides over Thursday’s unveiling of the first U.S. banknotes printed with two women ’s signature s, while calling for “much more” work to advance equity for women and minorities. Yellen, the first woman to head the Treasury and chair the U.S. Federal Reserve, said the new banknotes being produced at the Treasury’s Bureau of Engraving and Printing site in Fort Worth, Texas, were a reminder of the contributions of women who have worked at Treasury and in the economics profession. She will be joined at the site by U.S. Treasury Chief Lynn Malerba, the first Native American to serve in that role, to see $1 and $5 bills being printed with their signatures. The banknotes, to be delivered to the Federal Reserve this month to enter circulation next year, are the first to carry the signature of a female Treasury chief and a Native woman. The Fort Worth facility — one of two in the United States — prints over 50% of U.S....