A nod to modern day rosie the riveters
A Personal Reflection
Rosie the Riveter is more than a cultural symbol for me. My great-grandmother was part of that generation of women who stepped into wartime industry, helping build airplanes for Lockheed during World War II.
Like many women of that era, she carried both strength and resourcefulness into her work and her home life. Because of that history, I feel a personal connection to preserving the legacy of those women who quietly reshaped what was possible.
I’m a member of the American Rosie the Riveter Association (ARRA), which honors the women who worked in factories, shipyards, and aircraft plants during the war and who ALSO managed to keep a home and family running outside of work hours.
For me, the spirit of Rosie lives on not only in history, but in the women I work with today — women navigating change, responsibility, resilience, and reinvention in their own lives.
The Modern Rosie
The image of Rosie the Riveter has long symbolized women stepping forward with courage, competence, and resilience during uncertain times.
Today, many women are still carrying multiple roles at once — building careers, tending homes, navigating identity shifts, caregiving for others, and quietly holding emotional worlds together.
In my therapy work, I often meet women who feel strong on the outside but deeply exhausted on the inside. The “Modern Rosie” represents a different kind of strength: not just pushing through, but learning how to integrate work, meaning, home, grief, creativity, and rest.
Therapy can be a place where those parts of life come back into balance.