Cartoon in U.S. Steel News

“Kitty” Kalwasinski Markovich donated photographs and clippings, including this one, to the Southeast Chicago Historical Project. During World War II, Kitty, who was a welder, had been depicted by Warner Brothers in a photo shoot as a “Rosie the Riveter” of the South Works mill at Carnegie/US Steel. During the war, the steel mills had been eager to find replacements for male workers serving in the military. Women were encouraged to perform industrial labor as part of the war effort. This cartoon illustrates some of the cultural beliefs with which women workers at the time had to contend.