USA HISTORY

AMERICAN IMPERIALISM(1890 1919)

THE UNITED STATES IN WORLD WAR I

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The famous image of “Rosie the Riveter”

(A) symbol of a permanent change to how society viewed working mothers

(B) ** symbol of reduction of prejudice against women working in traditional male jobs

(C) showed how women’s jobs were an analogy to their work at home as housewives

(D) created permanent negative stereotypes of women in the workforce

EXPLANATIONS BELOW

Concept note-1: -"Rosie the Riveter” was an iconic poster of a female factory worker flexing her muscle, exhorting other women to join the World War II effort with the declaration that “We Can Do It!” The “We Can Do It!” poster was aimed at boosting morale among workers in the World War II factories producing war materiel.

Concept note-2: -The “Rosie the Riveter” movement is credited with helping push the number of working women to 20, 000, 000 during four years of war, a 57 percent jump from 1940.

Concept note-3: -In the workforce, Rosie the Riveter and the rest of the WWII war campaign urging to bring women to work, provoked massive changes in work regulations-from shifts, to clothing, to bathroom space. Women working outside of domestic life were accepted, encouraged, and looked upon as patriotic during a short period in time.

Concept note-4: -On January 20, 2018, less than two years after finally getting recognition as the woman in the photograph-thought to be the inspiration for the World War II-era poster girl “Rosie the Riveter”-Naomi Parker Fraleydied at the age of 96.