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About Rosie the Riveter

With tens of thousands of men going off to war, American industry turned to women to help fill its wartime contracts for tanks, trucks and bombers. Rosie the Riveter became part of a government-sponsored advertising campaign that recognized the contributions women made during the war. At least half the women who worked in wartime industry had never worked out of the home before. The peak of womens wartime employment came in 1944 when females represented one-third of the nations manufacturing labor force. In Michigan, an estimated two hundred thousand women worked in the states auto plants during the war.

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