In the 19th century goldfields, women played significant familial, labour and entrepreneurial roles, such as wives, mothers, prostitutes, business owners and service providers and ‘Colonial Helpmeets’ (wives who worked alongside their husbands).
19世紀的礦場中，女人扮演諸如妻子、母親、妓女、商人和"Colonial Helpmeets"(這個詞強調女人對丈夫的從屬性)。