Move over Britney and Miley. Young girls have a new role model: Rosie the Riveter.

The cultural icon who represented American women working in war factories during WW2 is back, this time to inspire today's teens.

A trade school named after the poster girl has opened for young women training them to succeed in non-traditional female jobs.

The schools helps teen girls prepare for careers such as plumbers, welders, carpenters, electricians, and more. Today, its 50-member student body has expanded to include girls and boys.

"It's about trying to change the way society looks at women," said Lynn Shaw, co-creator of Rosie the Riveter High and member of the board of directors for Women in Non-Traditional Employment Roles, a non-profit economic development group that sponsors the school. "We just feel that women should have an equal opportunity."

"I've worked as a miner at a limestone mine in the desert, a steelworker, and a longshoreman," she says. "For me, it was all about the money. Women in nontraditional jobs earn 20% to 40% more than women in what are considered 'traditional' women's jobs. That's $1 million over a lifetime."

"It would start out, 'Oh my God, a girl's on the job!' I was a threat to men -- I somehow downgraded their job," she says. "I got tired of being the only woman on the job."

So Shaw earned her doctorate in electrical engineering and became an advocate for vocational equity.

In addition to hands-on instruction, teens take a full range of academic courses required by the state to graduate from high school. And the school's five in-house teachers teach topics such as technical math and language skills required in the workplace.

Students say they are proud to be associated with Rosie the Riveter and the school's "We can do it" attitude.

"Coming here has opened my mind up. Before, I had thought I might become a special-ed teacher. I never thought about a nontraditional job," says Alaina Servin, 18. "They encourage you to do a lot of things here. My goal now is to work in an oil refinery. It won't be easy, but I'm a strong person and they make good money there."

Neville Allen II, 17, says his friends don't think it's odd that he attends a school named after a feminist icon. However, he does not plan a career in the building trades. "I want to be a writer who deals with pop culture," Allen said. "My vocational studies are going to help give me ideas to write about."

What do you think about teens attending a trade school?