BBC - Radio 4 - Woman's Hour -Niki Caro

Award-winning director on her latest film

In March 1975, a single mother called Lois Jenson started a new job working in a Minnesota iron mine. It was hard physical work but the pay was good and she needed the money. What she wasn't prepared for was the sexual harassment- both verbal and physical that came with the job.

She stuck it out for thirteen years before filing a lawsuit against the company. Ten years later Lois and the other women in the mine won their case- the first ever Class Action sexual harassment case in the US.

Now her story has been made into a film by the award winning New Zealand director Niki Caro. She tells Jenni why she thinks the story is still relevant.

North Country, certificate 15, is released in the UK on 3 February 2006

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