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.
Tag: CWA Australia
If Life Were Golf, Women Would Be Starting Four Suburbs Back
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.
This Is Not a Workforce Gap — It’s an Abyss
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
CWA Australia
CWA Australia is redefining the creative economy by certifying women’s artistic, cultural, and health-based work as legitimate economic infrastructure.