Rosie the Riveter

Describe women's changing role.

Warm-up, learn, try it together, practice, then a quick check. About 15 minutes.

What children learn in Level 53

With millions of men away at war, factories needed workers. Women stepped in, and more than 6 million more went to work.
They built planes, welded ships, and ran machines, jobs many people had said women couldn't do. A made-up character stood for them all: Rosie the Riveter, on posters with sleeves rolled up.
Georgia played its part. At the Bell Bomber plant in Marietta, about 28,000 workers built giant B-29 planes. Many were women. Black workers there were kept apart from white workers.
Many women also served in uniform, as nurses, drivers, pilots, and office workers.
When the soldiers came home, many women lost those jobs. But the idea didn't go away. Women had shown what they could do, and their daughters remembered.

Georgia Standards of Excellence in Social Studies:

SS5H4.e — Describe the effects of rationing and the changing role of women and African Americans or Blacks; include "Rosie the Riveter" and the Tuskegee Airmen.