Part of the reason for the jump was the "Rosie the Riveter" campaign from the Office of War Information, which was determined to get more women to work and free men to fight. After all ...

Saturday marked a special return for a local woman with a long history. Fairport’s own “Rosie the Riveter” was recently ...

Rosie the Riveter is one of the most famous symbols of the feminist movement, but it took years to accurately identify the worker who inspired the iconic image of a woman flexing her bicep.

As World War Two moved manpower from the factory to the frontline, millions of women chipped in by clocking in. Their ...

And women had secured their place in history and proved their value in the workplace. The classic image of “Rosie the Riveter ...

The Piankeshaw Chapter of the Daughters of the American Revolution celebrated Rosie the Riveter Day at the Rosie statue on ...

By Kathy Chouteau In 1942, after spotting a Department of Defense advertisement recruiting workers, Omezelle Gipson boarded a ...

The women had their own icon in "Rosie the Riveter," a woman in a polka-dotted bandanna flexing a muscular arm in a recruitment poster that declared: "We can do it!" After Japan's surprise attack ...

John Yang has their story. Rosie the Riveter is known as a cultural icon that encouraged women to join the workforce during wartime. But the name is often associated with the 1942 “We Can Do It!” ...

As some references to the historic contribution of women and other marginalized groups are being erased from the federal ...

Jeanne Gibson rarely misses a Friday at Richmond's Rosie the Riveter Museum. Now, she's taking time to share her story with visitors. Gibson, 99, went to work as a welder at 18-years-old to help ...

On Friday, March 21, the City of Everett celebrated its first annual Rosie the Riveter Day at the Edward G. Connolly Center.