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    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