Rosie’ dropping off kids at daycare

Date: c. 1943

Created By: unknown

Original or Replica: Replica

Era: The General

Collection: IKEducation

This is a photograph of a working mother dropping her kids off at the Maritime Childcare Center, Kaiser shipyards. Nicknamed ‘Rosie the Riveters,’ an estimated seven million women on the American home front joined the labor force at war production factories while the men were away fighting World War II. Therefore, the need for childcare became a necessity and an issue for both employee and employers.