As an Australian, growing up listening to colonial history and popular lore, we were taught that Australia was built through the efforts of male muscle. Folklore depicts Australia’s formative years to be a period where rugged outback settlers battled nature and the odds, in a struggle for survival. Men were revered and held responsible for this pioneering and forging of new land. Similarly, the development of Australian industry is deemed as being the product of male initiative, although not displaying the same brawn qualities of its pioneering predecessors.