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Rosie The Riveter

Published on Nov 26, 2015

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PRESENTATION OUTLINE

ROSIE THE RIVETER

Alex Kelly & Gabbie Ezell

BASIC FACTS

  • Recruitment tool to bring women in work force
  • Based on real worker, but mainly fictitious
  • Needed women to fill hole of enlisting men

PLACES TO WORK

  • Aircraft industry
  • Munitions industry
  • Shipyards
  • Assembly lines
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2. Munitions: WEAPONS AND AMMUNITION
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4. MADE MORE MATERIALS FOR WAR AT FAST PACE

STORIES

  • Crena Anderson
  • Dorothy McMann

VIEWS ON ROSIE

  • Tend to family
  • Needed help in factories
  • Sacrificial
  • Brave

AFTER THE WAR

  • Women kicked out
  • Highest point- 30%
  • Many working women have families

IMPACT

  • Life for women changed
  • Helped make women more independent

"Women are capable of everything its too bad it took a war to make everyone see it."

INTERESTING INFORMATION

  • Aircraft industry employed more than 310,000 women
  • Rose Will Monroe
  • Media