Rosie the Riveter

Rosie the Riveter
the name used in the US to refer to any American woman who worked in factories to help the war effort during World War II. A riveter fixes sheets of metal together with thick metal pins. The name was used as the title of a popular song, and a real riveter, called Rose Monroe, was chosen for a famous poster which showed a woman worker saying, ‘We can do it!’.

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