Rosie the Riveter, portrayed in “We Can Do It!” by J. Howard Miller, helped forge women’s rights by helping recruit six million women in to the workforce during World War II, indelibly changing workforce dynamics and women’s role in society. Miller, who created posters to support the war effort, based his 1942 poster on a wire photo of 17-year-old Geraldine Doyle pressing metal in a Michigan factory. Featured on newspapers, magazines and posters, Rosie became a feminist icon who forever changed women’s economic power and acceptance into traditionally male industrial trades.

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