How did Rosie the Riveter philosophy contribute to the rise in divorce rates?
During WWII, Life magazine did an article on women working at Lockheed in Burbank, CA building P-38s using a new riveting machine that would greatly speed up production. There were about 5 women who’s photos appeared in the article. One of the women, Vera Lowe (Hovie) was young (19) thin, had dark brown wavy hair, high cheek bones and wore a bandanna. She was also one of many young ladies that left the midwest farm culture to pursue employment in the California aerospace industry to support the war effort. These images were shot in B&W and then printed as a color illustration, rather like a cartoon. Her image closely resembles the fictional character listed above. Since she was actually a riveter, a real person depicted and named in a major national magazine, she is as much “Rosie” as any I have seen. I believe she was the inspiration for the fictional character used for the “We can do it” literature. (With no disrespect to Dorthia Lang’s fine images of welders in a shipyard or other i
