Tag: women’s work

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Australia Is Not a State Party to the UNESCO Safeguarding Convention

Post author By CreativeWomensAssociation
Post date February 13, 2026

Australia is not a State Party to the UNESCO 2003 Convention, meaning there is no national safeguarding system for living cultural heritage. What this means for women’s cultural work, skills transmission, and workforce recognition.

Tags Creative Women’s Association, Cultural governance, Cultural policy Australia, Cultural provenance, Cultural Workforce Infrastructure, Intangible Cultural Heritage, living heritage, Safeguarding Systems, skills transmission, UNESCO 2003 Convention, women’s work, Workforce Registry

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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

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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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The Flow State Files

Post author By CreativeWomensAssociation
Post date July 24, 2025

Women don’t lose their creative spark — it gets interrupted. New research shows how constant micro-disruptions kill flow state. Here’s how women can reclaim it, protect it, and burn brighter than ever.

Tags burnout, creative fire, creative spark, Creative Systems, CWA, deep work., feminist neuroscience, Flow State, gender and creativity, interruption effect, Mental Load, Nature Communications, Productivity, sovereign time, sustained attention, time theft, women’s focus, women’s work