In the 1970s, while women took to the streets to march for their rights, Chris Wilson broke a different kind of glass ceiling … by heading underground.
Chris was told in 1978 that she was the first woman to work in an underground mine in Tasmania after she was hired at the Renison Mine in the state's west.
She was among the very first women working underground in Australia. In fact, until 1986, West Australian mine operators could be fined $500 if a woman was caught beneath the surface.
