Rosie The Riveter Analysis

When America was founded, people migrated due to opportunity, escaping religious persecution, and the belief that a better life was possible. This belief remains until this day. The larger story of American history is the struggle to fulfill an ideal of American life and the adversarial opinions as to how it can be achieved. FDR’s Four Freedoms are an ideal that encouraged people to fulfill by fighting in World War II while Rosie the Riveter, Brown v. Board of Education, the Cuban Missile Crisis, and the 26th Amendment are moments in American history in which the Four Freedoms were fulfilled to better society or showed that it is an never ending process for change in society. On January 6, 1941, President Franklin D. Roosevelt gave his State of the Union Address during a tumultuous and dangerous time for World War II had already started in Europe. In an attempt to persuade the American citizenry away from isolationism, FDR presented the Four Freedoms that the US should be fighting for: the freedom of speech, the freedom of worship, the freedom from want, and the freedom from fear. Moreover, the …show more content…
In the article Who was Rosie the Riveter?, Hoyt says, “Many people continue to interpret Rosie as a feminist icon, but revisionist historians stress that she was not. She was appropriated by different parties for a similar reason: to beckon women into the workplace...Rosie's purpose was extinguished at the end of the war.” Afterwards, women had to deal with unequal wages, harassment from male co-workers, and the glass ceiling. The story of Rosie the Riveter shows that women of the US were not free from want or fear. They did not have the “equality of opportunity” and “jobs for those who can work,” or provided “security for those who need it” (Roosevelt) when they were harassed by male co-workers. Yet, women strived for better and continued to fight their place in the workforce to this