Tag: Creative Women’s Association

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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1969 Was Supposed to Change Everything.

Post author By CreativeWomensAssociation
Post date January 5, 2026

In 1969, Australia recognised equal pay for equal work. What never followed was the infrastructure to support women’s real working lives — particularly where creativity, care, and economic security intersect.

Tags 1969 Equal Pay Case, Creative Economy, Creative Women’s Association, creative workforce, Cultural Infrastructure, domestic care load, economic design, Superannuation Gap, Unpaid Labour, Women And Work, women’s work

Into 2026

Post author By CreativeWomensAssociation
Post date December 22, 2025

From creative practice to Creative Authority: how the Creative Women’s Association moved from grassroots creativity to national workforce reform in just three months, reshaping how Australia recognises creative labour, women’s work, and economic value.

Tags Applied Creative Intelligence, Arts & Provenance, Certification, creative authority, Creative Health, Creative Trades, Creative Women’s Association, creative workforce, provenance, Social Prescribing, Soft Infrastructure, Soft Systems Design, Women’s Economic Participation, Women’s Health, Workforce Reform

Creative Health Isn’t a Side Project.

Post author By CreativeWomensAssociation
Post date December 18, 2025

Creative health is not a small-grants sector — it is a missing economy. When women are supported to sustain caregiving and skilled creative labour through proper workforce infrastructure, billions in lost productivity and preventative health value can be unlocked.

Tags Arts Definition, Creative Economy, Creative Practice, Creative Women’s Association, creative workforce, Cultural Industries, Cultural Infrastructure, Cultural Labour, Economic Policy, Gender Equity, Practice vs Performance, provenance, Skill & Output, Skills & Certification, Textiles & Craft, Trades & Craft

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When Did Art Stop Being a Trade

Post author By CreativeWomensAssociation
Post date December 17, 2025

What does “creative” actually mean — and when did art stop being a trade? This article explores how arts shifted from skilled, trade-based practices into performative spectacle, and how that transition reshaped value, labour, and women’s work in the creative economy.

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