<p>Gender equality is an objective that has yet to be achieved on a larger scale. Women have always been and are still part of the industrial workforce; nonetheless, they often keep being ignored and marginalized by archaeological research as part of a productive system that enhanced their social subalternization. In general, industrial archaeology continues to promote the idea that women are the “weaker sex,” and heteronormative myths related to their working situation keep “occupying” the minds of so many people. As a public science, archaeology must contribute to the activist debate on social inequality and contemporary political debates by providing data about social practices, both in the past and present. Based on the example of the Portuguese situation of women working in industrial spaces and defending that archaeology should be public, political, and activist, this paper intends to deconstruct those narratives and give a voice to these women.</p>