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  2. Rosie the Riveter - Wikipedia

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    Rosie the Riveter memorial at the Inez Grant Parker Memorial Rose Garden in San Diego, California, 2024. A "Rosie" putting rivets on an Vultee A-31 Vengeance in Nashville, Tennessee , in 1943 Rosie the Riveter is an allegorical cultural icon in the United States who represents the women who worked in factories and shipyards during World War II ...

  3. In their twilight, the Greatest Generation, especially the ...

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    A Rosie the Riveter poster, which has since become a feminist allegory, shows a woman with her hair in a red-and-white, polka-dot scarf, and long eyelashes. Her blue shirt sleeve is rolled up as ...

  4. A real-life Rosie the Riveter, Jennifer McMullen, turns 100 - AOL

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    For most Americans, Rosie the Riveter, the arm-flexing female factory worker in a World War II wartime poster, is a symbol of American strength and resiliency during one of history's darkest periods.

  5. Rosie the Riveter redux: Women on track to dominate the job ...

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    For most of the last century, the idea of a female-dominated or even gender-balanced workforce would have seemed almost laughable. Even with a torrent of Rosie the Riveters and Mary Tyler Moores ...

  6. The Life and Times of Rosie the Riveter - Wikipedia

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    The Life and Times of Rosie the Riveter is a 1980 documentary film and the first movie made by Connie Field, about the American women who went to work during World War II to do "men's jobs." [ 3 ] [ 4 ] [ 5 ] In 1996, it was selected for preservation in the United States National Film Registry by the Library of Congress as being "culturally ...

  7. Connie Field - Wikipedia

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    Field was born to a Jewish family [1] in Washington, D.C. and was a full-time organizer for social causes in the late 1960s and 1970s in Boston and New York City. She was a journalist for The Old Mole, a radical New Left-oriented underground newspaper and a member of Boston Newsreel, one of a group of independent filmmaking and distribution organizations around the country, which made over 60 ...

  8. MarionMade!: Real-life Rosie the Riveter declares 'I’m a ...

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    “Grandma always fed people who were hungry,” Dune said. From farming to the M-46 bomb line. Dune did everything on the farm, including milking cows from age 6. She attended a one-room schoolhouse.

  9. Rosie the Riveter World War II Home Front National Historical ...

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    Rosie the Riveter World War II Home Front National Historical Park is a United States national historical park located in Richmond, California, near San Francisco.The park preserves and interprets the legacy of the United States home front during World War II, including the Kaiser Richmond Shipyards, the Victory ship SS Red Oak Victory, a tank factory, housing developments and other facilities ...