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Title	The Real Rosie the Riveter Project
View collection at	http://dlib.nyu.edu/rosie/
Description	This site includes videos of oral history interviews with 48 women who were employed in critical trades (e.g., shipbuilding and aircraft manufacturing) during the World War II years. This site includes videos of oral history interviews with 48 women who were employed in critical trades (e.g., shipbuilding and aircraft manufacturing) during the World War II years. The interviews cover a wide range of issues: transitions from farm to factory, and from rural to urban America; working conditions; gender relations and discrimination at work; occupational segregation; images of femininity in the war plants; equal pay; the continuing ideal of domesticity; issues of child care and housework; and post-war employment experiences.
Subject	Employment Pay equity Sex discrimination in employment World War, 1939-1945
Place	United States
Time Period	1930-1939 1940-1949 1950-1959
Publisher	Tamiment Library
Primary Sources	Oral history interviews

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