Rosie the Riveter

(noun)

A cultural icon of the United States representing the American women who worked in factories and shipyards during World War II, many of whom produced munitions and war supplies.

Related Terms

  • Charity Adams Earley
  • United Service Organizations
  • baby boom
  • Women during the war

(noun)

Rosie the Riveter is a cultural icon of the United States, representing the American women who worked in factories during World War II, many of whom produced munitions and war supplies. These women sometimes took entirely new jobs replacing the male workers who were in the military.

Related Terms

  • Charity Adams Earley
  • United Service Organizations
  • baby boom
  • Women during the war

Examples of Rosie the Riveter in the following topics:

  • Labor in Wartime

    • Roosevelt stated that the efforts of civilians at home were as critical to winning the war as the efforts of the soldiers themselves.
    • "Rosie the Riveter" became the symbol of women laboring in manufacturing .
    • At the end of the war, many of the munitions factories closed.
    • All the major unions grew stronger during the war.
    • " poster for Westinghouse, closely associated with Rosie the Riveter, although not a depiction of the cultural icon herself.
  • Gender Socialization

    • Gender socialization is the process by which males and females are informed about the norms and behaviors associated with their sex.
    • Preparations for gender socialization begin even before the birth of the child.
    • One of the first questions people ask of expectant parents is the sex of the child.
    • Preparations for the birth often take the infant's sex into consideration (e.g., painting the room blue if the child is a boy, pink for a girl).
    • "Rosie the Riveter" was an iconic symbol of the American homefront in WWII.
  • Mobilization and the Development of the West

    • World War II also marked racial milestones for women in the military such as Carmen Contreras-Bozak, the first Hispanic to join the WAC, and Minnie Spotted-Wolf, the first Native American woman to enlist in the Marines.
    • In 1943, the U.S.
    • The WAAC was converted to the Women's Army Corps (WAC) in 1943 and recognized as an official part of the regular Army.
    • Nineteen million American women filled out the home front labor force, not only as "Rosie the Riveters" in war factory jobs, but in transportation, agricultural, and office work of every variety.
    • "Rosie the Riveter", working on an A-31 "Vengeance" dive bomber.
  • Changing Roles for Women

    • The domestic war effort in the United States swept millions of women into the workforce.
    • Nineteen million American women filled out the home front labor force, not only as "Rosie the Riveters" in war factory jobs, but also in transportation, agriculture, and office work of every variety.
    • For example, the pop culture phenomenon of "Rosie the Riveter" made riveting one of the most well-known and common jobs for women at that time.
    • Experts speculate that women were so successful at riveting because it so closely resembled sewing (assembling and seaming together a garment).
    • However, riveting was just one of many jobs that women were learning and mastering as the aviation industry was developing.
  • Changing Roles for Women

    • The domestic war effort in the United States swept millions of women into the workforce.
    • The global conflict on an unprecedented scale and the absolute urgency of mobilizing the entire population made the expansion of the role of women inevitable.
    • In the United States, the hard skilled labor of women was symbolized by the concept of Rosie the Riveter, a woman factory laborer performing what was previously considered man's work.
    • At the end of the war, most of the munitions-making jobs ended.
    • The WAAC, however, never accomplished its goal of making available to "the national defense the knowledge, skill, and special training of the women of the nation."
  • Hemidesmosomes

    • Hemidesmosomes are asymmetrical and connect the basal face of the expressing cell to the extracellular matrix or to other cells.
    • Hemidesmosomes (HD) are very small stud- or rivet-like structures on the inner basal surface of keratinocytes in the epidermis of skin.
    • The HD comprises two rivet-like plaques (the inner and outer plaques).
    • Anchoring filaments traverse the lamina lucida space and appear to insert into the electron dense zone, the lamina densa.
    • Beneath the lamina densa, loop-structured, cross-banded anchoring fibrils extend more than 300 nm beneath the basement membrane within the papillary dermis.
  • Scarlet Fever

    • It is carried by the bacteriophage T12, which integrates into the Streptococcal genome, from where the toxin is transcribed.
    • The phage itself integrates into a serine tRNA gene on the chromosome.
    • The T12 virus itself has not been placed into a taxon by the International Committee on Taxonomy of Viruses.
    • The carboxy terminal portion of the protein exhibits extensive homology with the carboxy terminus of Staphylococcus aureus enterotoxins B and C1.
    • The rosy cheeks and white area around the mouth are typical symptoms of scarlet fever.
  • Steel-Frame Construction

    • The horizontal elements of the "I" are flanges, while the vertical element is termed the 'web'.
    • The development of this technique made the construction of the skyscraper possible.
    • In steel frame construction, steel beams are connected to the columns with bolts and threaded fasteners, like screws, or permanent mechanical fasteners, called rivets.
    • Often in office buildings, the final floor surface is provided by some form of raised flooring system with the void between the walking surface and the structural floor being used for cables and air handling ducts.
    • The exterior 'skin' of the building is anchored to the frame using a variety of construction techniques and following a huge variety of architectural styles.
  • Construction

    • Artists then use numerous possible techniques in order to join the different components such as welding, gluing, carpentry, screwing, riveting, and nailing.
    • All of these movements sought to distance themselves from more traditional processes and past emphasis on the human body, and moved instead towards the avant garde display of found objects as works of art.
    • The precise origin of the term constructed sculpture dates to the cubist constructions of Pablo Picasso circa 1912-1914, as well as those of Marcel Duchamp.
    • The origin of the word in its artistic sense can be traced back to the early 1950s, when Jean Dubuffet created a series of collages of butterfly wings, which he titled assemblages d'empreintes.
    • The term 'found object' originates from the French objet trouvé.
  • Skin Color

    • The deepest of the epidermal layers is called the stratum basale or stratum germinativum. 
    • The melanin produced in response to the sun’s rays protects our skin and the rest of the body from the harmful effects of the sun’s burn and cancer-inducing U.V. radiation. 
    • The amount of carotene found in the stratum corneum of the epidermis and the deepest layer of the skin, the hypodermis. 
    • The amount of oxygen-saturated hemoglobin found in the blood vessels of the middle layer of our skin, the dermis. 
    • Conversely, light-skinned individuals (compared to dark-skinned ones) may have a rosy effect to their skin thanks to the relatively more oxygen-rich hemoglobin flowing through the blood vessels of their dermis. 
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