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Real-Life Rosie the Riveter, Phyllis Gould, Among First Six Women Hired at Richmond Shipyard In WWII, Dies at 99
A pioneer among independent women in the blue-collar workforce in America, one-time WWII-era welder Phyllis Gould, who went on to fight for national recognition for herself an other Rosies, died last week at her home in Fairfax. She was 99.
While there were some 6 million American women who answered the call to take wartime defense factory jobs, a group of original Rosies in the Bay Area, including the highly activist Ms. Gould, have lobbied hard in recent decades for historical recognition of their work beyond the iconic Rosie the Riveter poster. As the Associated Press reports, Gould was instrumental in helping establish the Rosie the Riveter/WWII Home Front National Historical Park in Richmond, opened in 2000. She and a group of other living Rosies met with former President Barack Obama and former Vice President Joe Biden in 2014, and she helped lobby Congress