A 'Rosie' working on the bomber in Nashville, Tennessee (1943) Rosie the Riveter is a of World War II, representing the women who worked in factories and shipyards during, many of whom produced and war supplies. These women sometimes took entirely new jobs replacing the male workers who joined the military. Rosie the Riveter is used as a symbol of and women's economic power. Similar images of appeared in other countries such as Britain and Australia. Images of women workers were widespread in the media as government posters, and commercial advertising was heavily used by the government to encourage women to volunteer for wartime service in factories. Rosie the Riveter became the subject and title of a song and a Hollywood movie during WWII.

A woman operating a (1942) Because world wars were which required governments to utilize their entire populations for the purpose of defeating their enemies, millions of women were encouraged to work in industry and take over jobs previously done by men. During women across the United States were employed in jobs previously done by men. World War II was similar to World War I in that massive of men led to a shortage of available workers and therefore a demand for which could only be fully filled by employing women. Nearly 19 million women held jobs during World War II. Many of these women were already working in a lower paying job or were returning to the work force after being laid off during the depression. Only three million new female workers entered the workforce during the time of the war.

Although most women took on male dominated trades during World War II, they were expected to return to their everyday housework once men returned from the war. Government campaigns targeting women were addressed solely at housewives, likely because already-employed women would move to the higher-paid 'essential' jobs on their own, or perhaps because it was assumed that most would be housewives. One government advertisement asked women: 'Can you use an electric mixer? If so, you can learn to operate a drill.' : 160 Propaganda was also directed at their husbands, many of whom were unwilling to support such jobs. Many of the women who took jobs during World War II were mothers. These women with children at home pooled together in their efforts to raise their families.

They assembled into groups and shared such chores as cooking, cleaning and washing clothes. Many who did have young children shared apartments and houses so they could save time, money, utilities and food. If they both worked, they worked different shifts so they could take turns babysitting. Taking on a job during World War II made people unsure if they should urge the women to keep acting as full-time mothers, or support them getting jobs to support the country in this time of need. Being able to support the soldiers by making all different products made the women feel very accomplished and proud of their work. Over 6 million women got war jobs; African American, Hispanic, White, and Asian women worked side by side.

In the book A Mouthful of Rivets Vi Kirstine Vrooman shares about the time when she decided to take action and become a riveter. She got a job building B-17s on an assembly line, she shares just how exciting it was saying, 'The biggest thrill — I can't tell you — was when the B-17s rolled off the assembly line.

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You can't believe the feeling we had. Once women accepted the challenge of the workforce they continued to make strong advances towards equal rights. In 1944, when victory seemed assured for the United States, government-sponsored propaganda changed by urging women back to working in the home. Later, many women returned to traditional work such as clerical or administration positions, despite their reluctance to re-enter the lower-paying fields.

However, some of these women continued working in the factories. The overall percentage of women working fell from 36% to 28% in 1947. The song [ ]. Cover of the published music to the 1942 song The term 'Rosie the Riveter' was first used in 1942 in a song of the same name written by and.

The song was recorded by numerous artists, including the popular leader, and it became a national hit. The song portrays 'Rosie' as a tireless assembly line worker, who earned a doing her part to help the American. The name is said to be a nickname for Rosie Bonavita who was working for in. The idea of Rosie resembled, a real person who in 1941 was Canada's poster girl for women in the war effort in '.' The individual who was the inspiration for the song was Rosalind P. Walter, who 'came from old money and worked on the night shift building the fighter.' Later in life Walter was a philanthropist, a board member of the public television station in New York and an early and long-time supporter of the interview show.

Rosie the Riveter became most closely associated with another real woman, Rose Will Monroe, who was born in in 1920 and moved to during World War II. She worked as a riveter at the Aircraft Factory in, building bombers for the.

Monroe was asked to star in a promotional film about the war effort at home. The song 'Rosie the Riveter' was popular at the time, and Monroe happened to best fit the description of the worker depicted in the song. 'Rosie' went on to become perhaps the most widely recognized icon of that era. The films and posters she appeared in were used to encourage women to go to work in support of the war effort. At the age of 50, Monroe realized her dream of flying when she obtained a pilot's license.

In 1978, she crashed in her small propeller plane when the engine failed during takeoff. The accident resulted in the loss of one kidney and the sight in her left eye, and ended her flying career. She died from kidney failure on May 31, 1997, in where she was a resident, at the age of 77. A drama film,, was released in 1944, borrowing from the Rosie theme. Impact and post-war [ ]. A man and woman team working on the cockpit shell of a aircraft at the plant of (1942) According to the Encyclopedia of American Economic History, 'Rosie the Riveter' inspired a social movement that increased the number of working American women from 12 million to 20 million by 1944, a 57% increase from 1940.

[ ] By 1944 only 1.7 million unmarried men between the ages of 20 and 34 worked in the defense industry, while 4.1 million unmarried women between those ages did so. Although the image of 'Rosie the Riveter' reflected the industrial work of welders and riveters during World War II, the majority of working women filled non-factory positions in every sector of the economy. What unified the experiences of these women was that they proved to themselves (and the country) that they could do a 'man's job' and could do it well. In 1942, just between the months of January and July, the estimates of the proportion of jobs that would be 'acceptable' for women was raised by employers from 29 to 85%. [ ] African American women were some of those most affected by the need for women workers. [ ] It has been said that it was the process of whites working along blacks during the time that encouraged a breaking down of social barriers and a healthy recognition of diversity.

Women at work on bomber,, Long Beach, California (1942) Women quickly responded to Rosie the Riveter, who convinced them that they had a patriotic duty to enter the workforce. Some claim that she forever opened the work force for women, but others dispute that point, noting that many women were discharged after the war and their jobs were given to returning servicemen. These critics claim that when peace returned, few women returned to their wartime positions and instead resumed domestic vocations or transferred into sex-typed occupations such as clerical and service work. For some, World War II represented a major turning point for women as they eagerly supported the war effort, while other historians emphasize that the changes were temporary and that immediately after the war was over, women were expected to return to traditional roles of wives and mothers, and finally, a third group has emphasized how the long-range significance of the changes brought about by the war provided the foundation for the contemporary woman's movement. In her study of World War II wrote 'For the first time, the working woman dominated the public image. Women were riveting housewives in slacks, not mother, domestic beings, or civilizers.' After the war, the 'Rosies' and the generations that followed them knew that working in the factories was in fact a possibility for women, even though they did not reenter the job market in such large proportions again until the 1970s.

By that time factory employment was in decline all over the country. [ ], known as 'Last Rosie the Riveter' built airplanes for 50 years, retiring at age 95. A 'Wendy the Welder' at the According to 's Rosie the Riveter, there was also, very briefly, a 'Wendy the Welder' based on Janet Doyle, a worker at the in California.

In the 1960s, Hollywood actress gained fame as 'Josephine the Plumber', a character in a long-running and popular series of television commercials for that lasted into the 1970s. This character was based on the original 'Rosie' character. One of 's ships, the, has a restaurant located on the deck named Rosie's Restaurant. The restaurant is mostly a tribute to Rosie, but also contains artwork depicting other war-related manufacturing and labor. In 2010, singer paid tribute to Rosie by dressing as her for a portion of the music video for the song '. The 2013 picture book by, features Rosie as 'Great Great Aunt Rose' who 'Worked building aeroplanes a long time ago'. She inspires Rosie Revere, the young subject of the book, to continue striving to be a great engineer despite early failures.

Rose is shown wielding a walking stick made from riveted aircraft aluminum. Singer paid tribute to Rosie in July 2014, dressing as the icon and posing in front of a ' sign identical to the original one often mistaken as part of the Rosie campaign. It garnered over 1.15 million likes, but sparked minor controversy when newspaper criticized it.

Other recent cultural references include a enemy type called 'Rosie' in the video game, armed with a. There is a character called Rosie The Riveter, who wields a rivet gun as a weapon (first appearing in vol. 176 (May 1984)). In the video game there are billboards featuring 'Rosies' assembling while drinking Nuka-Cola. Recognition [ ]. Assembling a wing section,, October 1942 by Connie Field is a 65-minute documentary from 1980 that tells the story of women's entrance into 'men's work' during WWII.

Is a 1999 documentary film about Canadian 'Rosies,' who built fighter and bomber aircraft at the, where was also the Chief Aeronautical Engineer. 2009 historical novel covers the wartime industries, and studies the real working conditions of many female industrial workers. 'Rosie the Riveter' is frequently referenced. On October 14, 2000, the was opened in, site of four, where thousands of 'Rosies' from around the country worked (although ships at the Kaiser yards were not riveted, but rather welded). Over 200 former Rosies attended the ceremony. Also in 2014 a nationwide program, run by the organization Thanks! Plain and Simple, was founded to encourage cities to pick a project that 'Rosies' can do with younger generations, in order to educate young people about women's roles in World War II, and to involve the 'Rosies', many of whom have become isolated as they have gotten older, in community projects.

The name and logo of the, one of the founding members of the, are inspired by the character of Rosie The Riveter. The Rose City Riveters is the fan 'Army' of supporters for the, a National Women's Soccer League team in Portland, Oregon, a.k.a. The Rose City. These modern-day 'Rosies' have taken their inspiration (and their name) from more than 30,000 Rosies who worked in the Portland shipyards in Portland during World War II.. The Riveters have activated the fan base and made the Thorns FC '.the most well-supported women's club team in the world.currently averaging over 17,000 fans per game,' in 2017. Images [ ] Westinghouse poster [ ].

Main article: In 1942, Pittsburgh artist was hired by the Westinghouse Company's War Production Coordinating Committee to create a series of posters for the war effort. One of these posters became the famous ' image—an image that in later years would also be called 'Rosie the Riveter', though it was never given this title during the war. Miller is thought to have based his 'We Can Do It!' Poster on a wire service photograph taken of a young female war worker, widely but erroneously reported as being a photo of Michigan war worker (later Doyle.) More recent evidence indicates that the formerly mis-identified photo is actually of war worker taken at in California.

The 'We Can Do It!' Poster was displayed only to Westinghouse employees in the Midwest during a two-week period in February 1943, then it disappeared for nearly four decades. During the war, the name 'Rosie' was not associated with the image, and the purpose of the poster was not to recruit women workers but rather as motivational propaganda aimed at workers of both sexes already employed at Westinghouse. It was only later, in the early 1980s, that the Miller poster was rediscovered and became famous, associated with feminism, and often mistakenly called 'Rosie the Riveter'. Saturday Evening Post [ ]. 's Saturday Evening Post 1943 cover featuring Rosie the Riveter External video, 7:15, 's image of 'Rosie the Riveter' received mass distribution on the cover of the on, May 29, 1943. Rockwell's illustration features a brawny woman taking her lunch break with a rivet gun on her lap and beneath her a copy of 's manifesto,.

Her reads 'Rosie'; viewers quickly recognized this to be 'Rosie the Riveter' from the familiar song. Rockwell, America's best-known popular illustrator of the day, based the pose of his 'Rosie' on that of 's 1509 painting from the. Rosie is holding a ham sandwich in her left hand, and her blue overalls are adorned with badges and buttons: a Red Cross blood donor button, a white 'V for Victory' button, a pin, an pin, two bronze civilian service awards, and her personal identity badge. Rockwell's model was a Vermont resident, 19-year-old Mary Doyle, who was a near where Rockwell lived, not a riveter. Rockwell painted his 'Rosie' as a larger woman than his model, and he later phoned to apologize. In a post interview, Mary explained that she was actually holding a sandwich while posing for the poster and that the rivet-gun she was holding was fake, she never saw Hitler's copy of Mein Kampf, and she did have a white handkerchief in her pocket like the picture depicts.

The Post 's cover image proved hugely popular, and the magazine loaned it to the for the duration of the war, for use in drives. After the war, the Rockwell 'Rosie' was seen less and less because of a general policy of vigorous copyright protection by the Rockwell estate. In 2002, the original painting sold at for nearly $5 million. In June 2009 the in acquired Norman Rockwell's iconic Rosie the Riveter painting for its permanent collection from a private collector.

In late 1942, Doyle posed twice for Rockwell's photographer, Gene Pelham, as Rockwell preferred to work from still images rather than live models. The first photo was not suitable because she wore a blouse rather than a blue work shirt. In total, she was paid $10 for her modeling work (equivalent to $141 in 2017). In 1949 she married Robert J. Keefe to become Mary Doyle Keefe.

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