Beyonce performs during the Pepsi Super Bowl XLVII Halftime
Show at Mercedes-Benz Superdome on February 3, 2013 in New Orleans,
Louisiana.
Kevin Mazur/WireImage
Despite being married to one of the biggest names in the music
industry, Beyonce has always modeled herself as a strong independent
woman.
On Tuesday, she took it a step further by posing as cultural icon
Rosie the Riveter, who became the face of female empowerment during
World War II, when women began taking on factory jobs — many of which
were formerly held by men — to support military efforts. The iconic
image was first used in 1942 in a song of the same name written by Redd
Evans and John Jacob Loeb.
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In the latest rendition, Beyonce posted the photo of herself on her
Instagram account with the slogan "We Can Do It!" as she flexed her
muscles in a denim shirt, with her long hair secured back in Rosie's
signature head scarf.
The "Run the World (Girls)" singer is currently performing with her
rapper husband, Jay Z, and the power couple recently took their On the
Road Tour to her hometown of Houston, Texas.
A 17-time Grammy Award winner, Beyonce spoke out about gender
equality in January in a contribution to the Shriver Report, in which
she proclaimed it was a myth.
"It isn't a reality yet. Today, women make up half of the U.S.
workforce, but the average working woman earns only 77 percent of what
the average working man makes," she wrote on Maria Shriver's website.
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"But unless women and men both say this is unacceptable, things will
not change. Men have to demand that their wives, daughters, mothers, and
sisters earn more — commensurate with their qualifications and not
their gender. Equality will be achieved when men and women are granted
equal pay and equal respect."
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