Category: Arts & Culture

Australia Once Made Its Own Cloth.

Post author By CreativeWomensAssociation
Post date February 18, 2026

Australia produces world-class wool yet imports most finished textiles. The Commons Exchange proposes a fibre-to-cloth revival, rebuilding domestic textile manufacturing through verified origin, regional production and place-based standards.

The Future of Women’s Work Is Already Here

Post author By CreativeWomensAssociation
Post date February 17, 2026

The future of women’s work is not simply about participation rates or automation forecasts. The Creative Women’s Association Verified Cultural Workforce Registry connects skilled women practitioners in cultural, craft, and manufacturing fields with real, paid work — making high-skill labour visible, trusted, and workforce-ready across Australia.

Tags Care Economy, Creative Women’s Association, Cultural Labour, Cultural Production, cultural workforce, Future of Women’s Work, intangible labour, Manufacturing Workforce, Regional Development, Skills Recognition, Tangible Skills, Verified Workforce Registry, Women And Work, Women in Manufacturing, Workforce Infrastructure

In Real Life (irl)

Post author By CreativeWomensAssociation
Post date February 16, 2026

The World Bank’s Women, Business and the Law 2024 report assessed 190 countries and found a “shocking” gap between policy and practice. Equal pay and safety laws may exist, but enforcement systems remain weak. The future of women’s work depends on regulatory infrastructure — not rhetoric.

Tags childcare policy, enforcement infrastructure, equal pay transparency, gender equality enforcement gap, global gender gap, policy vs practice, women and labour law, Women Business and the Law 2024, women economic participation, workplace protections, World Bank report

Australia Is Not a State Party to the UNESCO Safeguarding Convention

Post author By CreativeWomensAssociation
Post date February 13, 2026

Australia is not a State Party to the UNESCO 2003 Convention, meaning there is no national safeguarding system for living cultural heritage. What this means for women’s cultural work, skills transmission, and workforce recognition.

Tags Creative Women’s Association, Cultural governance, Cultural policy Australia, Cultural provenance, Cultural Workforce Infrastructure, Intangible Cultural Heritage, living heritage, Safeguarding Systems, skills transmission, UNESCO 2003 Convention, women’s work, Workforce Registry

That’s Not My Name

Post author By CreativeWomensAssociation
Post date February 12, 2026

Arts networks consistently fail to reach CALD and trade-skilled women because many do not identify as “artists.” When culture is treated as identity rather than labour, the most authentic cultural workers are structurally excluded.

Tags arts networks, CALD women, Creative Women’s Association, creative workforce, cultural exclusion, Cultural Labour, cultural policy, cultural work, First Nations Women, inclusion failure, trade skills, Workforce Reform

The Future of Women’s Work

Post author By CreativeWomensAssociation
Post date February 11, 2026

The future of women’s work is largely absent from mainstream “future of work” debates. This article outlines why women’s labour has remained structurally undefined — and why new workforce architecture, standards, and safeguarding systems are essential to building a sustainable, future-ready economy.

Tags Authorship, capacity building

If Australia Had Protected Its Culture

Post author By CreativeWomensAssociation
Post date February 10, 2026

If culture is work, where are Australia’s cultural sectors? While Japan and other nations define, protect, and measure cultural labour, Australia reduces culture to lifestyle shorthand — leaving skills, workers, and entire economies unsupported.

Tags Authorship, capacity building, Creative Women’s Association, intergenerational wellbeing, preventative infrastructure, prevention, public health, social infrastructure, sustainable systems, systems design for women

Changing the Physics of the Economy

Post author By CreativeWomensAssociation
Post date February 9, 2026

Women aren’t exhausted because they lack resilience. They’re exhausted because the systems they live and work inside were never designed to support care, recovery, or real life. If the economy runs on “psychics,” then it’s time to change the physics — starting with infrastructure that carries the load instead of crushing the people holding everything together.

Tags Authorship, capacity building, Creative Women’s Association, intergenerational wellbeing, preventative infrastructure, prevention, public health, social infrastructure, sustainable systems, systems design for women, systems thinking, women’s agency, Workforce Design

Building the World That Actually Works

Post author By CreativeWomensAssociation
Post date February 6, 2026

What does real prevention look like when systems are designed to support women’s agency, authorship, and economic independence from the start? This piece explores global thinking on care and prevention through a practical systems lens — and how building the right infrastructure creates healthier outcomes for everyone.

Tags Authorship, capacity building, Care Economy, Creative Women’s Association, creative workforce, Cultural Labour, economic independence, intergenerational wellbeing, living heritage, preventative infrastructure, prevention, public health, social infrastructure, sustainable systems, systems thinking, women’s agency, Workforce Design

Skills Are the Supply Chain

Post author By CreativeWomensAssociation
Post date February 5, 2026

Australia’s manufacturing future depends on skills transfer, certification, and workforce continuity. New findings from the Australian Fashion Council show why safeguarding skills is central to sovereign capability — and why workforce infrastructure is the missing link.

Tags Common Wealth Authority, Creative Women’s Association, Cultural governance, Cultural Labour, Cultural policy Australia, Cultural provenance, Cultural safeguarding, Heritage protection, Intangible Cultural Heritage