Tag: Motherhood Penalty

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

Economic Independence & Women's Enterprise The Future of Women's Work: Creative, Economic & Cultural Power

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

Economic Independence & Women's Enterprise The Future of Women's Work: Creative, Economic & Cultural Power

The P Word

Post author By CreativeWomensAssociation
Post date July 7, 2025

Patriarchy isn’t just a cultural legacy — it’s an economic structure that quietly extracts women’s unpaid labour while limiting their health, wealth, and opportunities. The future of women’s work won’t be handed over. It will be built.

Tags Care Economy, Creative Women’s Association, Economic Justice, Feminism, Gender Inequality, Gender Pay Gap, Gender Roles, Global Health, Health Inequity, Motherhood Penalty, Patriarchy, Social Systems, Structural Reform, Systemic Change, Unpaid Labour, Women’s Economic Security, Women’s Rights

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Biology’s Biggest Bill

Post author By CreativeWomensAssociation
Post date July 7, 2025

Born female? Prepare to pay the price. From lost wages to unpaid labour, biology handed women the ability to create life — society turned it into a lifelong economic penalty. The numbers don’t lie — but they do demand change