Symbolic vs. Actual equality

I thought the currency discussion was interesting for the way it touched on the differences between legal and symbolic equality, and ACTUAL equality. It shows some of the tension in Japan that the government is making an effort to make women legally equal and to put them in more prominent positions on the money, and yet culturally there is still so far for women to go. It made me think about how that tensions manifests in the United States, where we have had a similar struggle between symbolic, cultural, and legal equality, albeit it in a different way than in Japan. Having just seen the movie Harriet, and knowing that she was scheduled to be on the $20, but will not be because of the current administration makes me think that we should include currency more regularly in our examination of primary source and period specific resources that we look at in history classes as a way of assessing cultural and political values of different time periods.