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Post war history After WWII, many countries who had deployed women in the fire services, passed laws to prevent them applying for paid employment. Across the world it took varying periods of time for these laws to be overturned. In Australia, it was not until the 1970s - 1977 in New South Wales. This does not mean women did not fight fires! Of course they did, in voluntary roles. You can see this from the history of women in firefighting in Australasia timeline, but it is also common sense. Very little has been written about the period following 1945 until the first females fought their way into paid fire fighting work in the late 1970s and early 1980s across the world. On these pages I will collect and publish photographs of females fighting fires during this period.
| Recent History In June 2005 I convened the First Womens' Fire Fighting Conference in Australia, In Sydney. Delegates from across Australia, and from the NZFS Women attended. In the following year, the Australasian Women in Fire Fighting Conference was held, with some controversy. Selected archival materials from these two events can be found here. I have yet to write up the UFUA story, but if you are interested in labour history, or gender studies, this would be a great case study for a thesis]. The International Labour Organisation has also produced a good study, though now a bit dated (2003).
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