The World in Pictures- Kaitlyn Nunnelley

Rosie the Riveter. Although women took on male dominated trades during World War II, they were expected to return to their everyday housework once men returned from the war. Rosie inspired a social movement that increased the number of working women by 57% from 1949 to 1944. Women began to prove to themselves and their country that they too could do a man's job. Rosie convinced women that they had a patriotic duty to enter the workforce. She has been an icon since 1940 and has forever opened the work force to women while providing the foundation for the contemporary women's movement. This war time propaganda boosted morale during the war and recruited more female workers, inspiring the rights women enjoy today and equality to men.