European Economic
and Social Committee
Programme
Teleworking and gender equality – conditions so that teleworking does not increase the unequal distribution of unpaid care and domestic work between women and men and for it to be an engine for promoting gender equality
Remote EESC Hearing
Friday, 15.01.2021 from 10:30 to 13:00
Draft Programme
10:30 - 10:35 | WELCOME AND INTRODUCTION
- Mr Laurenţiu Plosceanu - SOC Section President
10:35 - 11:05 | Panel I – THE INSTITUTIONAL VIEWS
- Moderator: Ms Kinga Jóo - EESC Study Group President
- Ms Sandra Ribeiro - President of the Commission for Citizenship and Gender Equality, representing the PORTUGUESE PRESIDENCY OF THE COUNCIL
- Ms Karen Vandekerckhove - Head of Unit 'Gender Equality', DG JUST, EUROPEAN COMMISSION
- Ms Evelyn Regner - Chair of the FEMM Committee, EUROPEAN PARLIAMENT
11:05 - 11:35 | Panel II – RESEARCHERS' VIEWS
- Moderator: Ms Milena Angelova - EESC Rapporteur
- Ms Barbara Gerstenberger - Head of Unit 'Working Life', EUROFOUND
- Ms Manuela Tomei - Director 'Conditions of work and Equality' Dept., ILO
- Ms Lina Salanauskaite - Researcher, EIGE
11:35 – 12:05 | BREAK for the interpreters
12:05 – 12:45 | Panel III – VIEWS FROM SOCIAL PARTNERS AND CIVIL SOCIETY ORGANISATIONS
- Moderators: Ms Milena Angelova and Ms Erika Koller - EESC Rapporteur and Co-rapporteur
- Mr Guillaume Afellat - SGI Europe
- Ms Rebekah Smith - BUSINESSEUROPE
- Ms Marina Monaco - ETUC
- Mr Pascual Martinez - COFACE-Families Europe
- Ms Mary Collins – EWL
12:45 - 13:00 | CLOSURE
- Ms Kinga Jóo - EESC Study Group President
- Ms Milena Angelova - EESC Rapporteur
- Ms Erika Koller - EESC Co-rapporteur
Participants can speak English, French and Hungarian and listen to English