Category: The Gazelle

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.

Creative Business & Leadership Creative Capital Creative Health & Wellbeing Economic Independence & Women's Enterprise In Real Life | IRL. Insight Legacy & History Popular Culture, Women & the Creative Economy Power & Privilege Smart News The Future of Women's Work: Creative, Economic & Cultural Power Work & Money

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.

Creative Business & Leadership Creative Capital Creative Health & Wellbeing Economic Independence & Women's Enterprise In Real Life | IRL. Innovation & Ideas Insight Legacy & History Popular Culture, Women & the Creative Economy Power & Privilege Smart News The Future of Women's Work: Creative, Economic & Cultural Power Work & Money

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

Creative Business & Leadership Creative Capital Creative Health & Wellbeing Economic Independence & Women's Enterprise Innovation & Ideas Popular Culture, Women & the Creative Economy Power & Privilege Smart News The Future of Women's Work: Creative, Economic & Cultural Power Work & Money

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

In Real Life | IRL. Popular Culture, Women & the Creative Economy Smart News

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

Creative Capital Economic Independence & Women's Enterprise Popular Culture, Women & the Creative Economy The Future of Women's Work: Creative, Economic & Cultural Power

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

Creative Survival

Post author By CreativeWomensAssociation
Post date July 24, 2025

Creative survival isn’t rebuilding—it’s creating from the fracture. Discover how art therapy empowers women post-burnout, enabling resilience and reinvention through simple, everyday artistry.

Tags art as healing, Art Therapy, burnout recovery, Creative survival, CWA, emotional regulation, Her Serentity, lived experience, motherhood creativity, post-burnout art practice., reclaim creative life, reinvention toolkit, self-expression, sketch therapy, survival art, women's resilience

Intermission

Post author By CreativeWomensAssociation
Post date July 24, 2025

Discover how short-form play and pattern-spotting—micro games, doodles, puzzles—fuel creativity, reduce stress, and enhance adult learning, backed by contemporary research.

Tags adult education, adult play, cognitive flexibility, Creative Women’s Association, creativity reset, divergent thinking, Flow State, innovation rituals, Intermission, intermission mindset., mental wellness, micro‑play rituals, Mindful Spark, neuroscience of play, pattern‑spotting, play system, play-based learning, short-form thinking

The Reading Shelf

Post author By CreativeWomensAssociation
Post date July 24, 2025

Explore how intergenerational reading programs—pairing elders and youth in creative storytelling—spark empathy, mental stimulation, and cross-generational creativity in modern learning.

Tags care work, cortisol stress, creative domesticity, CWA Lens, Domestic redefined, foundational power., home as sanctuary, intentional rhythms, Mental Load, redefining chores, seasonal home wisdom, shared stewardship, UCLA clutter study

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So…What Do We Do With This D Word?

Post author By CreativeWomensAssociation
Post date July 24, 2025

Explore how redefining “domestic”—from unpaid drudgery to shared, dignified care—can reclaim women’s well-being and quiet power, backed by groundbreaking stress research.

Tags care work, cortisol stress, creative domesticity, CWA Lens, Domestic redefined, feminist home, foundational power., home as sanctuary, intentional rhythms, Mental Load, redefining chores, seasonal home wisdom, shared stewardship, UCLA clutter study, Unpaid Labour, women’s wellbeing