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Rosie the Riveter is a cultural icon in the United States. She was an icon of women that worked in factories and shipyards during World War II. She was in a World War II poster titled "We Can Do It!". She is often used as a symbol of feminism in this image.[1] Pictures of working women were used many times during World War II. The US government wanted women to work during the war.[2] In 1944 a movie called Rosie the Riveter was released.
Rosie the Riveter became associated with a real woman called Naomi Parker, who inspired the icon.[3] Rosie the Riveter was named after Rosalind P. Walter.[4]
In 1997, the Rosie the Riveter Memorial Committee was started.
Rosie The Riveter Media
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Rosie the Riveter memorial at the Inez Grant Parker Memorial Rose Garden in San Diego, California, 2024.
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A "Rosie" putting rivets on an Vultee A-31 Vengeance in Nashville, Tennessee, in 1943
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Women workers in the ordnance shops of Midvale Steel and Ordnance Company in Nicetown, Pennsylvania, during World War I (1918)
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A 1943 Monsanto advertisement for refrigeration reveals ambivalence, emphasizing that after the war, women will return to their homes as "Rosie the Housewife."
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A woman operating a turret lathe (1942)
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A man and woman riveting team working on the cockpit shell of a C-47 aircraft at the plant of North American Aviation (1942)
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Women at work on bomber, Douglas Aircraft Company, Long Beach, California (1942)
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A "Wendy the Welder" at the Richmond Shipyards
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Assembling a wing section, Fort Worth, Texas, October 1942
"We Can Do It!", by J. Howard Miller, was made as an inspirational image to boost worker morale.
References
- ↑ Duncan, W. Raymond; Jancar-Webster, Barbara; Switky, Bob (2008). World Politics in the Twenty-first Century Brief (Student choice ed.). Boston: Houghton Mifflin College Div. p. 268. ISBN 978-0-547-05634-0.
- ↑ Rupp, Leila J. (1978). Mobilizing Women for War: German and American Propaganda, 1939–1945. Princeton: Princeton U.P. ISBN 0-691-04649-2.
- ↑ Naomi Parker Fraley, the Real Rosie the Riveter, Dies at 96
- ↑ "Rosie the Riveter and GBBGC[dead link]." Locust Valley, New York: Grenville Baker Boys and Girls Club, March 12, 2018.