Rosie The Riveter: Compared to our parents, and their parents, most of us hardly ever encounter the idea of gender discrimination. While it could just be my isolated opinion, it seems to me that women today don't feel constrained to do certain jobs, or stay at home having children. The days where women were simply secretaries, kindergarten teachers, or housewives seem to be distant memory to most of us today, and while we cannot say …
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…social structure of the United States tried to shuffle them back to their original "places", but the change had already occurred. Women were equals, and because of their wartime experiences they knew it. 'Rosie The Riveter' gave us a glimpse of how the metamorphosis of women's rights was jump started, when hundreds of thousands were given the opportunity to do the jobs of the men at war, and filled those roles without losing a step.