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In late April, sad news spread through social media: Mary Doyle Keefe, better known as World War II patriot and feminist icon “Rosie the Riveter,” died in Connecticut at age The inspiration for Norman Rockwell’s famed painting, and thereby millions of working women during and after the war effort, was gone forever. The sadness was palpable and condolences were offered, but I couldn't shake an odd feeling of familiarity. Hadn't inom e-mourned this already?
Turns out I had—sort of. In December , year-old Geraldine Hoff Doyle—you know her in her red and white polka-dot bandanna from the “We Can Do It!” poster—died in Lansing, Michigan. And thirteen years before that, in , anotherso-called Rosie had died. This time she was Rose Will Monroe, an aircraft factory worker from Pulaski County, Kentucky.
A skim through American National Biography showed that at her inception, Rosie the Riveter was more of a midcentury folklore figure than the enskild icon that many of us think of
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Who is Rosie the Riveter?
- Rosie the Riveter was a symbolic representation of the women who worked in factories and shipyards of the United States of America during World War II.
- During the world wars, many countries organized propaganda campaigns to encourage women to participate in the war effort.
- The propaganda campaign led in America for this purpose was called Rosie the Riveter.
- The war required heavy conscription of men across the country and their jobs in the manufacture of munitions and war supplies needed to be filled.
- Even though the women in the United States held sex-typed jobs before the outbreak of the war, Rosie the Riveter campaign encouraged many of them to join the workforce in jobs that were previously only held by men.
- About 19 million women performed jobs in America and 3 million more joined during the war.
- They began working with heavy construction machinery and they also worked in the steel and lumber industries.
- The p
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Rosie the Riveter
Cultural icon of the US during World War II
For other uses, see Rosie the Riveter (disambiguation).
Rosie the Riveter is an allegorical cultural icon in the United States who represents the women who worked in factories and shipyards during World War II, many of whom produced munitions and war supplies.[1][2] These women sometimes took entirely new jobs replacing the male workers who joined the military. She is widely recognized in the "We Can Do It!" poster as a symbol of American feminism and women's economic advantage.[3]Similar images of women war workers appeared in other countries such as Britain and Australia. The idea of Rosie the Riveter originated in a song written in by Redd Evans and John Jacob Loeb. Images of women workers were widespread in the media in formats such as government posters, and commercial advertising was heavily used by the government to encourage women to volunteer for wartime service in factori