Category: Popular Culture, Women & the Creative Economy

Examining how gender, identity, and women’s work play out in the media, arts, and the broader creative industries.

Australia’s Creative Economy Is Running on Empty

Post author By CreativeWomensAssociation
Post date November 28, 2025

Australia’s creative economy is being held back by the collapse of its textile manufacturing base. With less than 1% of apparel textiles milled onshore and no national provenance certification, Australia risks losing its cultural, economic, and creative sovereignty. A real creative economy requires structure, manufacturing, and protected provenance — not symbolic celebration days.

Tags Certification, CreativeAuthority, CreativeCare, CreativeEconomy, CreativeExcellence, CreativeHealth, CreativeWomensAssociation, CreativeWorkforce, CulturalEconomy, CWAAustralia, GenderEquity, NationalStandards, PreventativeHealth, SystemChange, UNESCO, WomenAndWork

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Not a Hobby Course.

Post author By CreativeWomensAssociation
Post date November 27, 2025

Australia has 0% national certification for creative work, despite women forming the majority of creative and care-based labour. Global evidence from UNESCO, WHO, and WEF shows that creative practice requires structured pathways and professional accreditation to become a recognised workforce. The Creative Women’s Association proposes a national certification model to address this systemic gap.

Tags Certification, CreativeAuthority, CreativeCare, CreativeEconomy, CreativeExcellence, CreativeHealth, CreativeWomensAssociation, CreativeWorkforce, CulturalEconomy, CWAAustralia, GenderEquity, NationalStandards, PreventativeHealth, SystemChange, UNESCO, WomenAndWork, WomenInCreativity, WorkforceReform

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Australia Has 0% Creative Workforce Standards

Post author By CreativeWomensAssociation
Post date November 22, 2025

Australia is the only major economy with 0% national standards for its creative workforce, leaving creative practitioners without accreditation, pathways, or structural support. The Creative Women’s Association introduces Australia’s first national framework for creative excellence, transforming creativity into a recognised and accredited professional field.

Tags ArtsPolicy, AustralianCreatives, Certification, CreativeAuthority, CreativeEconomy, CreativeExcellence, CreativeHealth, CreativeIndustry, CreativeWomensAssociation, CreativeWorkforce, CulturalEconomy, CWAAustralia, CWARealNews, FutureOfWork, NationalStandards, ProfessionalAccreditation, SystemChange, WomenInCreativity, WorkforceReform

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If It Ain’t Broke… Then Why Are Women Still Hauling It?

Post author By CreativeWomensAssociation
Post date November 3, 2025

Across every economy, women do 76% of the world’s unpaid labour yet control less than 20% of wealth and leadership. The system isn’t “broken”—it’s built this way. “If It Ain’t Broke… Then Why Are Women Still Hauling It?” exposes the 80/20 illusion and asks why, in 2025, women are still carrying the weight of progress that refuses to arrive.

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The System Won’t Change Itself

Post author By CreativeWomensAssociation
Post date October 9, 2025

The Creative Women’s Association never set out to talk about God or politics. But to fix a broken system, we have to name the architecture. From the 80/20 global wealth gap to the Vatican’s 5% female leadership, it’s clear: silence is the oldest form of control. Equality begins when women start talking about what they were told not to.

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Creative Excellence Program

Post author By CreativeWomensAssociation
Post date October 2, 2025

The Creative Women’s Association has launched the world-first Creative Excellence Program, a 10-month leadership initiative certifying women as creative authorities and reshaping the global creative economy.

Tags arts leadership, Australia creative sector, creative authority, Creative Economy, Creative Excellence Program, creative frameworks, Creative Health, Creative Women’s Association, cultural innovation, future of work, professional certification, regenerative fashion, women creatives., Women Entrepreneurs, Women in Leadership

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CWA Australia

Post author By CreativeWomensAssociation
Post date September 26, 2025

CWA Australia is redefining the creative economy by certifying women’s artistic, cultural, and health-based work as legitimate economic infrastructure.

Tags arts-based health, Australian innovation, creative certification, Creative Health, cultural authority, CWA Australia, Harris Tweed model, policy innovation, post-industrial economy, women’s economy, women’s labour

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And now we have the “Vulnerable Female Narcissist”

Post author By CreativeWomensAssociation
Post date August 11, 2025

A sharp, evidence-backed critique dismantling the “vulnerable female narcissist” narrative as a gendered pop-psych label that reframes women’s survival as pathology, supported by research on systemic diagnostic bias.

Tags CWA commentary, gaslighting in media, gender bias in psychology, Mamamia article review, misuse of narcissism term, modern media critique, pathologising vulnerability, pop psychology and women, vulnerable female narcissist critique, women’s emotional labour

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The Gap We’re Closing

Post author By CreativeWomensAssociation
Post date July 26, 2025

The Creative Women’s Authority™ is closing the gap between creative labour and formal accreditation. In a system that excludes practice-based, cultural, and production work, CWA offers a new professional standard — designed to recognise real contribution across emerging industries.

Tags Accreditation, Certified Creative Practitioner, Creative Economy, Creative Women’s Authority, Credentialing, Cultural Production, Design and Innovation, Economic Inclusion, Education Reform, Practice-Based Learning, Professional Pathways, Small-Scale Manufacturing, Structural Equity, VET Gap, Women in Industry, Workforce Reform

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If Nothing Changes, Then Nothing Changes

Post author By CreativeWomensAssociation
Post date July 10, 2025

We keep calling it feminism — like it’s a theory, not a fact. But women aren’t living a debate. We’re living a daily system of unpaid labour, structural inequality, and rebranded oppression. From workplace bias to burnout dressed as empowerment, nothing has changed. And if nothing changes — structurally, measurably — then nothing will.

Tags creative equity index, Creative Women’s Association, creative workplace reform, invisible work, Mental Load, Motherhood Penalty, performative equality, Reproductive Labour, Unpaid Labour, wage gap, women and superannuation, women in the workforce