Women Of Steel - Hoyts Cinemas Charlestown

The ‘Jobs for Women’ action group was a force to be reckoned with. They won the right to work at BHP, but the fight for equality wasn’t over. The women faced discrimination and sexism in the workplace and after only eight months on the job, a slump in the industry forced BHP to retrench many of their workers.

And yes, as you probably guessed the women went first – last employed first to go. Steadfast the group of women took to the campaign trail again arguing that if they hadn’t had to fight for so long to get jobs in the first place then they wouldn’t have been the last employed. Thirty-four women took BHP to court and won their cases, and a further 709 women ran a successful class action against the company.