Rosie the Riveter

Rosie the Riverter was any woman that helped the US millitary it was the homefront version of a GI joe. While all the men were off at war many many women worked on heavy machinery supporting their country.The term Rosiethe Riverter became so popular threw posters and advertisment that there was a song written about theres groupof poeple. As an affect to the war and the Propaganda posters it increased the number of working American women to 20 million by 1944, a 57% increase from 1940.






Now there is no clear anwser if there was an accual woman that Rosie the Riveter was named after. Yes there were many woman named rosie that were riverters but it didnt matter. This stong image of a working woman and supporting her country was a win win situation that would in turn give women more rights than they previosly had and the USA would benifit from their work in the factories and supporting America on the home front.

References
http://www.adcouncil.org/default.aspx?id=128

http://www.nps.gov/pwro/collection/website/home.htm

http://www.essortment.com/all/whowasrosieri_rslx.htm

-Reeve Allen-