The song portrays 'Rosie' as a tireless assembly line worker, who earned a 'Production E' doing her part to help the American war effort. The song was recorded by numerous artists, including the popular big band leader Kay Kyser, and it became a national hit. The term 'Rosie the Riveter' was first used in 1942 in a song of the same name written by Redd Evans and John Jacob Loeb. The song 'Rosie the Riveter'Д¬over of the published music to the 1942 song The overall percentage of women working fell from 36% to 28% in 1947. However, some of these women continued working in the factories.

Later, many women returned to traditional work such as clerical or administration positions, despite their reluctance to re-enter the lower-paying fields. In 1944, when victory seemed assured for the United States, government-sponsored propaganda changed by urging women back to working in the home. We did it!' Once women accepted the challenge of the workforce they continued to make strong advances towards equal rights. She got a job building B-17s on an assembly line, and shares just how exciting it was, saying, 'The biggest thrill-I can't tell you-was when the B-17s rolled off the assembly line. In the book A Mouthful of Rivets, Vi Kirstine Vrooman writes about the time when she decided to take action and become a riveter.

Over six million women got war jobs African American, Hispanic, White, and Asian women worked side by side. Д«eing able to support the soldiers by making all sorts of different products made the women feel very accomplished and proud of their work. Taking on a job during World War II made people unsure if they should urge the women to keep acting as full-time mothers, or support them getting jobs to support the country in this time of need. If they both worked, they worked different shifts so they could take turns babysitting. Many who did have young children shared apartments and houses so they could save time, money, utilities and food. They assembled into groups and shared such chores as cooking, cleaning and washing clothes. Those women with children at home pooled together in their efforts to raise their families. Many of the women who took jobs during World War II were mothers. Unfortunately, this was reckoned as unnatural and as men began to return home from the war, the government instituted another propaganda campaign urging women to 'return to normalcy'. It expanded their own expectations for womanly duty and capabilities. Many women discovered they enjoyed the autonomy these jobs provided them with. They began to work heavy construction machinery, taking roles in lumber and steel mills as well as physical labor including unloading freight, building dirigibles (which are airships similar to air balloons), making munitions, and much more. Women responded to the call of need the country was displaying by stepping up to fill positions that were traditionally filled by men. Only three million new female workers entered the workforce during the time of the war. Many of these women were already working in lower-paying jobs or were returning to the work-force after being laid off during the depression. Nearly 19 million women held jobs during World War II. World War II was similar to World War I in that massive conscription of men led to a shortage of available workers and therefore a demand for labor which could be filled only by employing women. During World War I women across the United States were employed in jobs previously done by men.

Women workers in the ordnance shops of Midvale Steel and Ordnance Company in Nicetown, Pennsylvania during World War IД«ecause the world wars were total wars, which required governments to utilize their entire populations to defeat their enemies, millions of women were encouraged to work in the industry and take over jobs previously done by men.

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