Rosie the Riveter
/ˌrəʊzi ðə ˈrɪvɪtə/US
noun
(The type of) a woman who took on a factory job (or other occupation traditionally carried out by men) during the Second World War (1939–45).
Origin
1940s; earliest use found in The Dallas Morning News. From Rosie the Riveter, the name of a fictional female industrial worker celebrated in the 1942 song of that name by Redd Evans and John Jacob Loeb.