Large shares of them are battling strikingly high mental health issues.
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shares → battle → issues
They also hold distressing levels of antipathy toward this country.
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They → hold → country
America has so much opportunity to offer young women — but work alone is not enough.
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work → have → women
A love for their country won’t fix all that ails young women, but a stronger sense of duty can help.
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sense → fix → duty
Young women should consider the legacy of Rosie the Riveter and consider why women in the past fought to preserve the blessings of a free society.
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women → consider → society
And why they should continue that fight today.
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they → continue → fight
As we celebrate our nation’s 250th anniversary, many young women aren’t in the mood to party.
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women → celebrate → mood
Last year, 40% of women aged 15 to 44 said they would leave America permanently if they had the opportunity — four times higher than a decade ago, according to Gallup polling.
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they → age → polling
Young women’s aspirations to leave deviate significantly from other U.S. cohorts, including older women, men of all age groups, and even young women in other countries.
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aspirations → leave → countries
Young women have higher levels of depression than other demographics and express feeling more anxiety and stress.
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women → have → anxiety
Alarmingly, 1 in 5 Gen Z women has seriously considered self-harm or suicide in the past year.
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women → consider → year
They point to a lack of trust in American institutions, politics, and affordability as the cause.
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They → point → cause
Yet, American women are swimming in opportunity.
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women → swim → opportunity
Women accounted for 98% of job gains last month and most of the jobs created during the second Trump administration.
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Women → account → administration
For just the third time in history, women hold more payroll jobs than men.
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women → hold → men
We earn more degrees of every type than men, from associate degrees to doctorates.
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We → earn → doctorates
Young women outearn men in many cities, and those who never have children will enjoy pay parity over their careers.
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who → outearn → careers
Working women today have the agency to craft careers for themselves.
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women → work → themselves
They can choose the family structures and living arrangements that meet their values and ambitions, from trad wives to corporate ladder climbers — and everything in between.
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that → choose → between
Women owe their progress to the Rosies of the World War II era.
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Women → owe → era
The war effort plucked nearly every able-bodied young man from the workforce, leaving millions of open positions in jobs and industries traditionally walled off from women.
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effort → pluck → women
Young women, wives, and mothers traded frilled collars and aprons for blue collars and overalls.
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women → trade → collars
From factory workers to farmers, streetcar operators to journalists, upwards of 6 million women entered the U.S. workforce.
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women → enter → workforce
By 1945, nearly one in four married women worked outside the home
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women → work → home
The fictional icon of “Rosie the Riveter” launched by the U.S. government became an effective marketing tool to reach a critical demographic in the effort to build an “arsenal of democracy.”
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icon → launch → democracy
Rosie was the call, and American women answered.
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women → answer → ?
Rosie also broadened America’s view of the roles in the economy and society that women could fill.
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women → broaden → that
Industry recognized that women could be trained in technical and skilled work, lead teams, and oversee large-scale production.
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women → recognize → production
They were “clamoring for more women,” said one Rosie.
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Rosie → clamor → women
By demonstrating firsthand that they were up to any task, women stepped out of the shadow of their spouses and fathers.
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women → demonstrate → spouses
Financial freedom followed.
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freedom → follow → ?
Although earning a fraction of men’s pay, Rosies still amassed fortunes from their overtime and double-time earnings and purchased war bonds.
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Rosies → earn → bonds
Rosies injected new wealth into consumer spending during the post-war economic boom, providing down payments on houses and furnishing new homes.
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Rosies → inject → homes
Listening to the experiences of real-life Rosies, it becomes clear that money was not the motivator for these women, but love for their country.
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money → listen → country
“It was important that America survive,” recounted Milka Bamond, who left home in West Virginia to build planes in Detroit during World War II.
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who → survive → II
We “must keep some remnant of patriotism going or it might not last.”
Barmond, who died last year at 100 years old, cared deeply about what could happen to America if we did not win the war, and later feared what was going to happen to America if we lost that sense of patriotism.
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we → keep → patriotism
She helped form a small — and shrinking — group of Rosies who speak to American students about their experience.
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who → help → experience
As she said, “to keep us reminded that freedom is not free.”
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freedom → say → ?
Rosies weren’t out to become famous and rich.
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Rosies → become → ?
They starkly contrast the attention-starved social media influencers shaping young women’s perceptions of life and work today.
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They → contrast → life
…and 5 more, not listed.
The Aporia
