Tag: Care Economy

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

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

Japan Didn’t Save Its Cultural Heritage by Celebrating It

Post author By CreativeWomensAssociation
Post date January 29, 2026

Japan protects cultural heritage through law, certification, and paid apprenticeships — treating textiles and craft as national workforce infrastructure. Australia celebrates creativity, but without governance, skills quietly disappear.

Tags Australia Japan comparison, Care Economy, Creative Industries

Creativity Is the Adjective. Culture Is the Noun.

Post author By CreativeWomensAssociation
Post date January 27, 2026

Creativity describes how work is done. Culture determines whether it is recognised, protected, and paid. Why naming women’s labour as cultural work — not just creative output — is the structural shift that changes everything.

Tags Care Economy, Creative Industries, Creative Women’s Association, cultural heritage, cultural work, culture, provenance, safeguarding, women’s labour, Workforce Design

Authorship has always been more than a name on a page

Post author By CreativeWomensAssociation
Post date January 23, 2026

Women perform the majority of unpaid labour and creative production, yet authorship and economic recognition remain structurally denied. This article examines how unpaid care, creative work, and enterprise are extracted without return — and why the issue is one of system design, not culture.

Tags Authorship, Care Economy, Commonwealth Policy, Creative Women’s Association, creative workforce, Economic Attribution, Unpaid Labour, Women And Work, Workforce Design

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The Skills We Keep Talking About

Post author By CreativeWomensAssociation
Post date January 22, 2026

The OECD Skills Outlook 2025 confirms what many already know: skills systems are failing not because people lack talent, but because workforce structures ignore care, health, and real-life complexity. The Creative Women’s Association is moving beyond commentary to build the missing infrastructure — transforming skills recognition, creative labour, and economic participation through measurable, standards-based reform.

Tags arts and provenance, Care Economy, Creative Economy, Creative Women’s Association, economic participation, future of work, OECD Skills Outlook, skills policy, Women And Work, Workforce Reform

The Mark That Quietly Reorders What We Value

Post author By CreativeWomensAssociation
Post date January 21, 2026

The Common Seal is a mark of provenance that recognises care, teaching, and cultural labour as foundational economic activity. By quietly reordering how value is assigned, it restores status, security, and legitimacy to the work societies depend on most.

Tags #Austrade, Care Economy, care work, Common Wealth, Creative Health, Creative Women’s Association

What We Choose to Protect Says Who We Are

Post author By CreativeWomensAssociation
Post date January 20, 2026

Intangible cultural heritage reveals what societies choose to protect. As UNESCO frameworks show, nations that safeguard living practices—craft, making, and cultural knowledge—build stronger economic and cultural futures. Australia’s absence from global intangible heritage listings raises a deeper question about maturity, provenance, and the value of creative labour.

Tags #Austrade, Care Economy, care work, Common Wealth, Creative Health, Creative Women’s Association, Cultural Continuity, Cultural Labour, Education, future of work, Intergenerational Work, Place-Based Work, Post-Digital Economy, provenance

We Care Alot.

Post author By CreativeWomensAssociation
Post date January 19, 2026

Certain forms of work sustain people, culture, and place — yet remain undervalued in modern economies. This article explores why restoring status, security, and recognition to care, teaching, and cultural labour is essential to a liveable future.

Tags Care Economy, care work, Common Wealth, Creative Health, Creative Women’s Association, Cultural Continuity, Cultural Labour, Education, future of work, Intergenerational Work, Place-Based Work, Post-Digital Economy, provenance, Teaching, Workforce Sustainability

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The Creative Equity Index

Post author By CreativeWomensAssociation
Post date July 10, 2025

The Creative Equity Index is a blueprint for measurable, enforceable workplace standards that reflect the real economic load women carry — not just theory, but policy.

Tags Australia women workforce, burnout, care as infrastructure, Care Economy, creative equity, creative industry reform, creative women advocacy, Creative Women’s Association, creative workplace standards, domestic labour recognition, domestic work audit, early retirement women, Economic Justice, economic scaffolding, equity in funding, Feminist Economics, feminist infrastructure, feminist workplace, flexible funding for women, gender equality reforms, gender equity policy, gender retirement inequality, gender-responsive budgeting, invisible work, Mental Load, minimum standards for women, modern unionism, Motherhood Penalty, policy for artists, RPL for caregivers, social prescribing and care, structural bias, super gap, unpaid care economy, Unpaid Labour, women and superannuation, women in policy, women’s economic independence, women’s leadership pathways

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