Women create culture, corporations profit, and the originators disappear. This piece explores how cultural capital is mined from female creators, how platforms like Etsy and eBay profit from feminine labor, and how we can shift the system to value creators—not just trends.
Category: Economic Independence & Women’s Enterprise
Building wealth, power, and opportunity — on women’s terms.
This Collection brings together tools, resources, and research that drive women’s financial freedom, entrepreneurship, and economic empowerment. From small business guides to enterprise funding models, we champion the skills, knowledge, and networks that help women create lasting wealth and independent livelihoods.
Explore pathways to financial independence, female-led business success, and gender equity in the economy. Whether you’re starting a business, growing an enterprise, or advocating for structural change, this Collection supports women to shape an economy where they thrive.
Women are the backbone of the global creative economy—yet they remain unpaid, under-credited, and under-capitalised. Backed by the UNESCO Creative Economy Report, this article reframes the conversation around ownership, value, and visibility in the culture industries.
Napoleon Hill’s 1937 concept of “Sex Transmutation” is finding new relevance in the 2025 creative economy. Far from mystical, it’s a strategy for managing energy, boosting focus, and driving results. Discover how women today are refining this powerful idea for modern leadership and creativity.
Patriarchy isn’t just a cultural legacy — it’s an economic structure that quietly extracts women’s unpaid labour while limiting their health, wealth, and opportunities. The future of women’s work won’t be handed over. It will be built.
Born female? Prepare to pay the price. From lost wages to unpaid labour, biology handed women the ability to create life — society turned it into a lifelong economic penalty. The numbers don’t lie — but they do demand change
Women entrepreneurs face more than bias — they face higher costs, fewer loans, and structural barriers disguised as business as usual. The so-called pink tax isn’t just on products — it’s pricing women out of building real economic power.