HISTORY
WORLD WAR II
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symbol of a permanent change to how society viewed working mothers
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symbol of reduction of prejudice against women working in traditional male jobs
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showed how women’s jobs were an analogy to their work at home as housewives
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created permanent negative stereotypes of women in the workforce
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Detailed explanation-1: -Rockwell’s model was a Vermont resident, then 19-year-old Mary Doyle Keefe who was a telephone operator near where Rockwell lived, not a riveter. Rockwell painted his “Rosie” as a larger woman than his model, and he later phoned to apologize.
Detailed explanation-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. About 300, 000 women were employed in War Department activities in November 1943.
Detailed explanation-3: -How did images like Rosie the Riveter and the act of working in the factories affect the morale of women? Posters like the one of Rosie the Riveter showed strength and determination in female workers and boosted the moral of women working in wartime industries.
Detailed explanation-4: -Rosie the Riveter was a symbol for the American women employed in factories and shipyards during World War II. Since her creation during the war Rosie has been seen and used as a symbol for feminism and women’s economic power.