Abstract
With the bombing of Pearl Harbor on December 7, 1941, the United States entered World War II; as a result, the country had to move quickly into a wartime production mode. The subsequent mass of men enlisting in the armed services left vacancies in crucial war industries such as airplane, ship, and munitions production. Many employers who had been indifferent or opposed to employment of women suddenly reconsidered their positions, and the federal government began to encourage women, especially housewives, to join the work force, emphasizing their patriotic duty. The wartime training program that targeted female workers was propagandized by the government’s Rosie the Riveter campaign, a fictional female icon created by the US government to draw women to working for the war industries.
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Kopp, D.M. (2018). Rosie the Riveter. In: Famous and (Infamous) Workplace and Community Training. Palgrave Macmillan, New York. https://doi.org/10.1057/978-1-137-59753-3_4
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