Rosie The Riveter Argumentative Analysis

K. George, a ThirdSight student engaged in historical inquiry using visual elements an environment to display their endeavors, explains, “Rosie the Riveter, a propaganda tool utilized by the U.S. Government to boost morale and recruit women into the workforce, was an important part of gender pay equality. She encouraged more than six million female workers to step up to the plate and accomplish things that only men had done before (George). Although Rosie had a strong impact, there is still a 20% pay gap between males and females in the United States. An important area that needs to be addressed when discussing women and work, is the glass ceiling. This introduces a quote from Richard Nixon’s “Address to the Nation on Labor Day” speech in 1971,
Referring back to the impact of Rosie the Riveter and the six million women that she influenced into the workforce, this solution will be beneficial. By using propaganda, this could allow all genders to comprehend the pros of having gender equality in the workforce. Equality can actually better a country’s overall economic performance. One initiative that is benefitting the nation’s pay gap is the Intel Global Diversity Initiative. Chief Diversity and Inclusion Officer, Intel, Danielle Brown, discusses that, “We’re creating an inclusive environment where all Intel employees can be fully empowered to take on the world’s most complex and challenging problems” (Brown). This initiative also has its success rates, proving that this is working; therefore propaganda can be an influential factor will that bring awareness to this initiative. “We’ve consistently improved our hiring numbers over the past three years – and we’re committed to continuing that growth in 2017,” (Brown). This solution fully answers the question, if women in America were greatly impacted by Rosie the Riveter in the workforce, how can we use propaganda in order to affect the pay gap between genders today? The increased use of propaganda, encouraged by Rosie the Riveter, will motivate all genders to cooperate together in initiatives, like the Intel Global Diversity Initiative, that could, over time, close the pay gap between male and females; because, as of now, if change continues at the lagging rate since 2001, the gap will not be fully closed until 2152 (Miller). Finally, this solution could also leave behind the glass ceiling because women would no longer be held down; also the failing legislative laws will not matter because new proactive steps are being made, and this could definitely lower the amount of overt