{"id":3577,"date":"2014-03-07T11:07:55","date_gmt":"2014-03-07T19:07:55","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.arc-zone.com\/blog\/carmenelectrode\/?p=3577"},"modified":"2014-03-11T13:25:23","modified_gmt":"2014-03-11T20:25:23","slug":"celebrating-womens-welding-history-month","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.arc-zone.com\/carmenelectrode\/2014\/03\/07\/celebrating-womens-welding-history-month\/","title":{"rendered":"Celebrating Women’s (Welding) History with Rosie the Riveter"},"content":{"rendered":"

How it got to be March, I can’t fathom. \u00a0It seems we just got through the holidays and now we’re “Springing Forward” \u00a0(don’t forget to\u00a0spring your clocks forward on Saturday night) and Women’s History Month is upon us.\u00a0So in honor of Women’s History month, I thought a roundup of Rosie the Riveter history (or herstory) would be in order.<\/p>\n

Where Did Rosie the Riveter Come From?<\/h2>\n

\"Rosie<\/p>\n

As most of you know Rosie the Riveter was an iconic (cartoon) figure who started out as a World War II era Norman Rockwell illustration for the cover of the Saturday Evening Post<\/a>\u00a0and became a propaganda poster to inspire women working at Westinghouse <\/a>to support the war effort, filling jobs vacated by our young men who’d joined the military.<\/p>\n

Did you know that there was a Rosie the Riveter SONG?<\/h2>\n

Written in 1942 by\u00a0Redd Evans\u00a0and John Jacob Loeb and soon became a pop hit of the day:<\/p>\n