Tag: Unpaid Labour

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.

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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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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So…What Do We Do With This D Word?

Post author By CreativeWomensAssociation
Post date July 24, 2025

Explore how redefining “domestic”—from unpaid drudgery to shared, dignified care—can reclaim women’s well-being and quiet power, backed by groundbreaking stress research.

Tags care work, cortisol stress, creative domesticity, CWA Lens, Domestic redefined, feminist home, foundational power., home as sanctuary, intentional rhythms, Mental Load, redefining chores, seasonal home wisdom, shared stewardship, UCLA clutter study, Unpaid Labour, women’s wellbeing

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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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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

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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