Arriving in Australia in the 1980s, migrant women applying for work at the country's largest steelworks were rejected on the basis of their sex.
Their rejection sowed the seeds of one of the largest anti-discrimination cases in Australian history, paving the way for women to work for BHP at Port Kembla in New South Wales for the first time.
Behind the landmark case was the Jobs for Women campaign, started by women who met at the newly formed migrant centre.