IWD: Big Talk with Josephine Reynolds

FIRE WOMAN - Josephine Reynolds blazing a trail in firefighting history.

This is the inspirational true story of a determined young woman in 1982 using sheer grit to assert her independence. She applies for the local fire service, unwittingly becoming a media star, being revered by feminists, and despised by the completely male-dominated and testosterone-fuelled world of the brigade. With the eyes of the world watching, what will happen to her as she faces constant judgements and pressures to prove herself in a culture that insists that this is a man's job?

Free-spirited and adventurous Jo was drawn to explore, leaving behind a promising fire service career to join expeditions in South America and S.E Asia; found The Silk Road Design Co with a Trading Company in Southern China, pack up and move to the island of Koh Samui, Thailand in 2006.

Travelling constantly Jo was exposed to huge inequalities,…