“Well-behaved women
rarely make history!”
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“Well-behaved women
See the Film
You can help bring the film to a wider audience. It’s easy to host your own screening at a cinema or in your community, workplace or arrange an online screening. Use Women of Steel as a fundraiser for your campaign or organisation.
Show the Film / Host a Screening
Join your Union, Guild, Womens Group
The Jobs for Women campaign showed that there is strength in numbers. When we stick together, we can win! Australians enjoy paid holidays and minimum wages because unions fought for them. Now they are fighting for women who are being hardest hit by the recession.
Join with others - start a campaign
Feeling inspired? Check out the campaign toolkit at The Commons Library. It has the resources you’ll need to find allies and get your campaign off the ground.
Boost the number of women in trades
There is no such thing as ‘male’ jobs and ‘female’ jobs. Yet in Australia today, only 2% of workers in construction, automotive and electrical trades are women.
Supporting and Linking Tradeswomen organise practical workshops in schools and communities to teach girls and women how to use tools. They have seen that women who have been taught to use tools from an early age are more confident to pursue a trade.
Request a workshop in your school
If you’re a woman working in a male dominated industry, check out these groups:
