This year’s International Women’s Day marks a groundbreaking recognition in Perth this year, with the state’s first female international shipmaster inducted into the Hall of Fame.

Carole Dooley has had the courage to go where other women had not previously ventured in the male dominated maritime industry and succeeded as a Foreign-Going Unlimited Ship Master, Pilot, and Marine Manager.

She talks to Millsy and Karl on 6PR Breakfast about the obstacles she has overcome in a heavily male-dominated industry, and what it means to be recognised,

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Image: Karen Wheatland