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.
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If Australia Had Protected Its Culture
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.
Changing the Physics of the Economy
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.
Building the World That Actually Works
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.