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Women in Culture

Post author By CreativeWomensAssociation
Post date March 24, 2026

The Women in Culture initiative by the Creative Women’s Association addresses the historical under-recognition of women’s cultural and intellectual contributions, reframing cultural work as a system that must be recognised, measured and sustained.

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That number is 76.

Post author By CreativeWomensAssociation
Post date March 23, 2026

Women perform 76% of all unpaid household and care work — not because of love alone, but because of a system designed to keep that labour invisible and free. This piece examines the staggering economic reality behind that number, why no other category of worker is expected to operate under the same terms, and what it means to finally call unpaid women’s work what it is: the largest unacknowledged labour subsidy in history.