Rosie the Riveter Phyllis Gould dies at 99 By Norah O Donnell Remembering Rosie the Riveter Phyllis Gould
Phyllis Gould died July 20 from complications of a stroke, her family told CBS News.
She worked at a California shipyard for $0.90 an hour. We had equal pay with the men. I was married, a young marriage, and he was a welder and I became a welder and was making the same money he did, she said during a White House visit in 2014.
She was one of around five million civilian women who worked in factories and shipyards during World War II, which freed men to go fight in the war.