Aussie women have always been more than a match for the stereotypical Bruce. And now they're becoming cattle-wrestling, sheep-shearing Jillaroos in the outback. See, the mines offer more lucrative work for fellas, so women can now prove themselves on the stock farms. And it seems that the the old guard rather like it. The BBC found one cattle station manager direct from central casting who tells them:

"The hormones are not playing up with them and they're more gentle and steady with cattle and look after your machinery and motorbikes and stuff and generally are much better than fellas. And I'm not knocking the fellas, they do a great job too. The world's changing, the women are getting tougher than blokes, mate, hey?"

Why the revolution? Apart from the rewards and challenges of hard physical work in an extreme environment, this is a job that lets you ride horses all day and fulfill your childhood Silver Brumby fantasies as you're bitten to shreds by mozzies. There's another draw too. The Telegraph thinks many have been inspired by the hit TV show McLeod's Daughters, which features five women holding their own on a cattle station. Just like their counterparts on Sex And The City, they love gossip, chocolate, weddings and, er, tractors. Here's a great scene in which two men try to fight over one of the women using only tractor metaphors. (Mr Big wouldn't know one end of a John Deere from another, the great big drongo.)