Tag: Creative Women’s Association

Why We Built Trades for Boys

Post author By CreativeWomensAssociation
Post date December 16, 2025

Australia has spent decades building trade pathways for boys while leaving women’s creative labour without workforce infrastructure. This article examines why the creative economy emerged from women’s historical trades — textiles, design, and cultural production — and how the failure to formalise these as certified professions has created systemic economic insecurity for women.

Tags Creative Economy, Creative Women’s Association, creative workforce, Cultural Industries, Economic Policy, Gender Equity, provenance, Skills & Certification, Textiles & Craft, Unpaid Labour, Women’s Trades, Workforce Infrastructure

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The High-Performance Load of Women

Post author By CreativeWomensAssociation
Post date December 8, 2025

Women operate at elite-performance load every day while systems continue treating their strain as personal pathology. This evidence-based analysis exposes how society gives men high-performance infrastructure and gives women diagnostic questionnaires—and why systemic accountability can no longer be avoided.

Tags Australia, Certification, Creative Health, Creative Industries, Creative Women’s Association, creative workforce, Cultural Labour, CWA Australia, economic gap, economic renewal, gendered economics, national policy., national standards, policy, provenance, Social Prescribing, Structural Inequality

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If Life Were Golf, Women Would Be Starting Four Suburbs Back

Post author By CreativeWomensAssociation
Post date December 2, 2025

A humorous, relatable exploration of the Domestic Load Handicap (DLH) — a new model that uses real-world data to measure the domestic and mental load carried by women. This piece reframes women’s overwhelm as a predictable structural outcome, not a personal weakness, highlighting how DLH can transform women’s health, economic security, and daily life.

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This Is Not a Workforce Gap — It’s an Abyss

Post author By CreativeWomensAssociation
Post date December 1, 2025

A national data review shows that 76% of unpaid labour performed by women creates an unmeasured economic abyss rather than a workforce gap. The CWA argues that Australia’s largest structural deficit is invisible creative and care labour, and proposes a certified creative workforce to transform and formalise this missing sector

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Stress-Load Cardiomyopathy

Post author By CreativeWomensAssociation
Post date November 5, 2025

Takotsubo—“stress-load” cardiomyopathy—proves that overload is physiological, not poetic. When 80–90 % of cases occur in women who carry most unpaid work, the cure isn’t self-help; it’s systemic balance. Honour, in scripture and science, was never meant to look like exhaustion.

Tags 1 Peter 3 : 7, cardiac rehabilitation, Creative Women’s Association, emotional labour, gender economics, Health Equity, modern theology., stress-induced cardiomyopathy, structural medicine, Takotsubo syndrome, women’s cardiovascular health

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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

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When Creativity Becomes Calm: How Expressive Acts Rewire the Stressed Female Brain

Post author By CreativeWomensAssociation
Post date August 18, 2025

Creative expression—from singing to sketching—isn’t just a pastime: it lowers cortisol, boosts feel-good hormones, and resets the female nervous system for calmer, more balanced days.

Tags Art Therapy, cortisol reduction, Creative Expression, Creative Women’s Association, expressive writing, scientific wellness, singing for stress, tress regulation, Women’s Health

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

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The Sketchbook Was Her Microscope

Post author By CreativeWomensAssociation
Post date July 11, 2025

Long before women were allowed in labs, they sketched. Scientific illustration was their microscope — a way to document, analyse, and contribute to discovery. Now, we reclaim that resilience through line, pigment, and process.

Tags Art and Science, Botanical Illustration, Creative Women’s Association, CWA, Drawing as Data, Feminist Art History, Feminist Knowledge Systems, Field Sketching, Historical Women Artists, Maria Sibylla Merian, Process Over Perfection, Resilience in Creativity, Sand Drawing, Scientific Drawing, Scientific Illustration, Sketchbooks, Visual Literacy, Women in Science, Women's Contribution to Science

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If Nothing Changes, Then Nothing Changes

Post author By CreativeWomensAssociation
Post date July 10, 2025

We keep calling it feminism — like it’s a theory, not a fact. But women aren’t living a debate. We’re living a daily system of unpaid labour, structural inequality, and rebranded oppression. From workplace bias to burnout dressed as empowerment, nothing has changed. And if nothing changes — structurally, measurably — then nothing will.

Tags creative equity index, Creative Women’s Association, creative workplace reform, invisible work, Mental Load, Motherhood Penalty, performative equality, Reproductive Labour, Unpaid Labour, wage gap, women and superannuation, women in the workforce

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