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Eleanore Hayes quit school in grade 11 and took a job working in a factory. At that time, women were not encouraged to
stay in school, but fortunately the job gave her the economic independence to buy an 8 mm camera which she used to document some of her experiences working in an all-women section of the factory. She left this job in 1967 when her second daughter, Lisa, was born.
In 1989, Lisa Hayes was studying Electrical Engineering at University, in a class made up of less than 20% women, when a female classmate gave her a photocopy of a 1952 safety document titled „Women are not Little Men“ which was full of ridiculous statistics and ‘facts’ trying to prove that women are inferior to men.
In 1996 Lisa re-discovered this manual and knew that it had to be exposed, to serve as a permanent record of the struggles that women have faced in striving towards equality. Women Are Not Little Men contrasts contemporary and archival images (including some of Eleanore’s 8 mm footage) against the text of the industrial safety and training manual.