Rosie the Riveter is a cultural icon of the United States, representing the American women who worked in war factories during World War II, many of whom worked in the manufacturing plants that produced munitions and materiel. These women sometimes took entirely new jobs and sometimes took the places of the male workers who were in the military. The character is now considered a feminist icon in the US, and a herald of women’s economic power to come.
Although Rosie the Riveter’s took on male dominated trades during WWII, women were exptected to retrun to their everyday housework once men returned from the war. Instead women choose to return to traditional work such as clerical or administration positions.
You can still find Reproduction tin signs displaying Rosie the Riveter.