Just 15 of Tasmania’s 300 career firefighters are women — the service is pushing for change

Tasmania’s fire service is trying to shake off the stereotype that firefighting is men’s work.

Just 15 of Tasmania’s 300 career firefighters are women.

Emma Weitnauer has spent the past decade in that minority.

She remembers dealing with sexist attitudes from male colleagues early on in her career.

“I was struggling with a piece of equipment when I first started and an old firefighter who’d been on the job for many years came over and said ‘Huh, that’s why females shouldn’t be firefighters’,” she said.

But Ms Weitnauer said…