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Rosie the Riveter was a cultural icon of WW2, representing the women who worked in factories and shipyards during WW2, many of whom produced munitions 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 American feminism and women's economic advantage. 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 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. Rosie the Riveter became the subject and title of a Hollywood movie in 1944. 

Rosie the Riveter - Rockwell (43-5) ..
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We Can Do It! - iconic poster (43-2) ..

• Naomi Parker Fraley .
• Australian Women's Land Army .
• Canary girl—British women working in munitions .
• G.I. Generation .
• Ronnie the Bren Gun Girl—the earlier Canadian equivalent
• Ruby Loftus Screwing a Breech Ring, a 1943 painting showing a female British war worker
• United States home front during World War II .
• Women in the workforce .
• Woman's Land Army of America ("farmettes")
• Women's Land Army—British farm workers ("land girls")
• Women's roles in the World Wars .
• Work ethic .
• Margaret Bourke-White .