A 'Rosie' working on an bomber, 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. Similar images of appeared in other countries such as Britain and Australia. The idea of Rosie the Riveter originated in a song written in 1942 by Redd Evans and John Jacob Loeb. 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.

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Became the subject and title of a Hollywood movie in 1944. Women workers in the ordnance shops of and Ordnance Company in, Pennsylvania duringBecause the 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 the 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 be fully filled only 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. A 1943 Monsanto advertisement for refrigeration reveals ambivalence, emphasizing that after the war, women will return to their homes as 'Rosie the Housewife.' 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 was also directed at their husbands, many of whom were unwilling to support such jobs. A woman operating a (1942)Many of the women who took jobs during World War II were mothers. Those 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.

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 songThe term 'Rosie the Riveter' was first used in 1942 in a song of the same name written.

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 '.' 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 alongside 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, but 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. 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, as the nation shifted to a time of peace, women were quickly laid off from their factory jobs.

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 theAccording to 's Rosie the Riveter, there was also, very briefly, a 'Wendy the Welder' based on Janet Doyle, a worker at the in California, and 'Julie the Janitor' based on Julie Wixon, a worker at Eastern Illinois University.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. Of the female hairstyles available for player characters in the sequel, one is titled 'Wendy the Welder' as a pastiche.In November 2016 the cartoon co-starred Ruby Ramirez, who wears a red sash with white dots around her head resembling Rosie's.In 2018, released a doll called who resembles Rosie the Riveter and is inspired by the poster.Recognition. Assembling a wing section, October 1942by 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 is the fan club for the, a National Women's Soccer League team in Portland, Oregon, a.k.a. The Rose City. They have taken their inspiration (and their name) from the 30,000 women who worked in the Portland shipyards in Portland during World War II. Images Westinghouse poster. Howard Miller was made as an inspirational image to boost worker moraleIn 1942, Pittsburgh artist J. Howard Miller 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' although it had never been given that 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-misidentified photo is actually of war worker (later Fraley) 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 to be 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 that 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 $145 in 2018).

In 1949 she married Robert J. Keefe to become Mary Doyle Keefe. The Keefes were invited and present in 2002 when the Rockwell painting was sold at Sotheby's.In an interview in 2014, Keefe said that she had no idea what impact the painting would have. 'I didn't expect anything like this, but as the years went on, I realized that the painting was famous,' she said. Keefe died on April 21, 2015, in Connecticut at the age of 92. See also.

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Dollys on DolliesBy Lucille LaTulip JohansonI had just graduated from high school in Cloquet, Minnesota in June of 1942, and in July I had a chance to go to visit my sister in Chicago who was a nurse in a local hospital. I left for my visit on July 5, 1942. When I arrived, her husband, an Aeronautical Engineer who worked at an aircraft plant there, asked me if I was interested in working at his place of work.

They were just opening up the plant to women, as the men were being called into service.It didn’t take me long to think about it, and I decided I’d stay in Chicago and check it out. The Pullman Railroad Car Seat factory had been converted into an aircraft plant and was now making wings, ailerons, nose pieces, spars, and etc. For the C-47 transport airplanes. We called these parts appendages. These assemblages were then shipped to the California based plant for final assembly of the aircraft.I was accepted for a 6 week course at a trade school, where I received a graduation certificate making me qualified for a job at Pullman Aircraft. I still have my practice rivet plate, note book, and safety glasses which were used in a display for “Rosie the Riveter” at our local Historical Society. Who would have thought they would have been important to anyone else but me?When we arrived each morning, the men went in one line to be checked out by a man who saw to it that they weren’t carrying in anything banned from the work place.

We women went in a different line where our purses were checked and our slack legs were checked also, but by a woman. The first ten women were sent to the Sheet Metal area to begin learning from the bottom up. We then went to another shop where we picked up the tools, drills and other items e needed for working at an upright drill press machine on sheets of metal. As women working in a “man’s” world, we had to take a lot of teasing and harassing especially when acquiring these parts. We had to take on a “I Can Do It!” attitude as we would now be the first women to be working in the plant other than a nurse and a few secretaries.We worked 8 hour shifts – a swing shift of one month of days and one month of nights.

We sometimes worked a shift we called the “pits” because we worked at night all the time and slept almost all of the days. These lasted three months.

Some of us formed bowling teams at the end of our morning shifts. In the summer, we had a baseball team and practiced on our half hour lunch time, 15 minutes off in the morning and 15 minutes off in the afternoon.Because of plant safety rules we wore a head scarf covering all of our hair until “Snoods” were invented. Safety oxfords with hard toes were a must as well as safety glasses. On our job we also wore slacks and blouses with no buttons to catch in our machinery and no jewelry. There were various articles on us featured in the Annual Employee Pullman Magazine of 1943.My partner from trade school and I were assigned to “Spars”, where we worked on long jigs with a large drill press at each end which we each operated and met in the middle. These were used to make precise holes every so often to hold rivets put in on what they called the “uprights” to finish off the spars.

The Spars Department had five or six of these large jigs and we probably put out five per eight hours.My partner and I took turns doing the riveting and bucking the rivets. When it was our turn to buck the rivet under the jig, we used a small dolly with rollers so we wouldn’t get metal shavings in our butt from the floor. I made the suggestion that everyone use a dolly when bucking rivets to increase speed and save our butts. However, I failed to write the suggestion down and put it in the suggestion box. In the next two days, every jig had a couple of dollies under them and we now became “Dollys on Dollies”. Someone else had turned in my idea and I lost out on a check. After all, what did a gal from a small town know about jigs, rivets, etc.

But I learned in a hurry. It was a far cry from beauty school and a fun summer.I worked for just about three years at Pullman and then came home to join the Navy. After being home for Christmas for the first time in almost three years, I decided to take some time off before finalizing my physical for the Navy.

The next thing I knew, the Montgomery Wards Order Office in Cloquet needed a credit manager, so I applied and was hired. It was there that I met a sailor who was home on leave from the South Pacific.

He was picking up his mother’s order. It turned out that I had been in kindergarten with him.

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I finally went out on a date with him, and ended up marrying him three months later, on the base in Washington D.C. (Another interesting story). He was going to school at the Anacostia base, and was going to ship out again after six weeks, so I headed back home to Cloquet. On my way home I stopped in Chicago to visit my sister and was there when the war ended. We all took to the streets, dancing and celebrating. My husband didn’t have to ship out again.After returning home I helped the Cloquet Red Cross Unit roll bandages, and also helped a friend with records in an office where people applied for food stamps, gas coupons, etc. I enjoyed my time working at the Pullman Aircraft plant as a “Rosie the Riveter” and I would have never given up the experience I received at the Pullman plant, and the contribution I was able to make to support the war.Posted May 17, 2016 / Filed under:.Tags.