Original 'Rosie the Riveters' honored iwth Congrssional Gold Medal - ABC News
Original 'Rosie the Riveters' honored iwth Congrssional Gold Medal - ABC News
Hard to find anything "good" about WW II, but the role played by women on the home front was certainly uplifting and glad that it is officially being recognized.
Originally posted by: Dealer1
Hard to find anything "good" about WW II, but the role played by women on the home front was certainly uplifting and glad that it is officially being recognized.
What strikes me about this period in American history is that ever since, our victory has been touted as a triumph of shining American nobility and the shimmering light of democracy; "proof" that our system was the best in the world. Well, let's ignore that we didn't and don't have anything resembling a democracy.
The real reason we won is we. Made. More. Shit. Lots and lots more. Guns, bullets, trucks, cans of Spam, gasoline, tents, boots, etc. etc. etc. AND...because we're a large country physically and have a huge merchant marine, we were and still are the masters of logistics. We not only made the needed shit, we got it there...fast.
And why did we make more shit? We had 100% workforce participation, including all the "Rosies" and all the black people who would never normally have been offered decent employment. Everybody worked. Contrast that with Germany, where women were expected to stay at home, and even during the last months of the war, they still had over 1 million domestic servants to pamper the upper classes, even as their country was crumbling around them.
And of course, the unintended consequence of Rosie is that many women enjoyed the freedom and earning power that they had and didn't want to go home and make babies. That sparked the women's liberation movement a couple of decades later.
Thank you, MaxFlavor, for posting that piece about the "Rosies." How uplifting, especially to us older gals.
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