Sixty-five years later, Rosie is still serving as a symbol of female empowerment, this time as the inspiration for a charter school for girls in Southern California. Bob Pool of the Los Angeles Times described the innovative objective of Rosie the Riveter High in a Dec. 3 article:
The Long Beach charter school was created in 2007 to help prepare teenage girls for careers as welders, plumbers, carpenters, electricians and other trades.
Today, its 50-member student body includes girls and boys, but its organizers still attempt to break down barriers for women seeking careers in what largely remains a man's world.
"It's about trying to change the way society looks at women," said Lynn Shaw, who helped create Rosie the Riveter High. "We just feel that women should have an equal opportunity." ...
"The idea had been to call the school Youth Opportunity Charter High School or something like that," Shaw said. "But that sounded really boring."
The group's executive director, Alexandra Torres Galancid, suggested that they name it after Rosie instead.
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