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SUMMARY:Policy & advocacy session on gender inequalities in care and pay in the EU
DESCRIPTION:International Women’s Day 2021 \nThis Policy and Advocacy session on gender inequalities in care and pay on 9th March organised by COFACE Families Europe came in a crucial moment of social developments within the EU. The Study Session immediately followed the International Women’s Day (8th March)\, came after a year of the adoption of the European Commission’s Gender Equality Strategy (GES)\, a few months after the EPSCO Council conclusions adopted under the German Presidency of the EU with guidelines aiming at closing the care gap  and the European Parliament voted its own report on the GES\, and finally in the middle of the transposition of the EU Work-life balance directive adopted in 2019. \nDifferent reports have stated that during the pandemic of Covid-19 the gender care gap is on the increase\, with women taking up a disproportionate share of additional household and caring tasks\, despite the fact that many men have been teleworking as well. \nThe study session therefore gathered different stakeholders (researchers\, policy makers\, civil organisations) to analyse how to tackle different gender gaps (care and pay)\, exchange good practices and challenges\, and how to build bridges within the different stakeholders involved. \nOur family of Emperor Penguins  accompanied us throughout this Study Session. The Emperor Penguin is a perfect example that nature provides us of gender equality and co-responsibility. The Emperor Penguin tackles too the stereotypical vision of “traditional” and old-fashioned distributions of roles\, where women are caregivers and men are the breadwinners\, just as COFACE Families Europe has always been promoting. \n  \nPROGRAMME \n9th March 2021\, from 9.15-11.15 CET online \n9.00-9.15 Virtual coffee \n09.15-9.30 Welcome\nAnnemie Drieskens\, President of COFACE Families Europe  (speech) \n9.30-10.00 Gender inequalities in care and its consequences on the labour market: state of play (full presentation)\n\nSpeaker: Blandine Mollard\, Researcher\, European Institute for Gender Equality. \n10.00-10.20 German Presidency Council Conclusions on tackling the gender pay gap: Valuation and Distribution of Paid Work and Unpaid Care Work (full presentation) \n\nSpeaker: Thomas Fischer\, Head of the Labour Market Unit in the Gender Equality Directorate of the Federal Ministry for Family Affairs\, Senior Citizens\, Women and Youth\, Germany \n10.20-11.00 Exchange with key stakeholders\nTaking the two keynote presentations as a starting point\, we will focus on the following key questions for discussion (with the impact of the Covid-19 pandemic in mind): \n\n What are the main reasons for the predominant sharing patterns and the links between the gender care gap and the gender pay gap?\nWhy is a more equal sharing of care responsibilities important\, and what are key recommendations for closing the gender care gap?\nHow to make real a greater involvement of men in divisions of work and care at home?\nHow to use the research to build policies and campaigns?\n\n\n11.00-11.15 Conclusions and next steps\nPascual Martinez\, COFACE Senior Policy and Advocacy Officer\n\n \nParticipants:\nCOFACE family organisations\, EU Work-life balance alliance\, Violence against women coalition\, EU and national policy-makers\, researchers. \nWorking language:\nEnglish \nObjectives of the session\n-Connect research\, policy and practice of organisations working on gender equality from different perspectives.\n-Consider ways to strengthen advocacy and policy to close the gender care gap. \nProgramme here \nKey findings here
URL:https://coface-eu.org/event/policyadvocacy-session-on-gender-inequalities-in-care-and-pay-in-the-eu/
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SUMMARY:Loving long-distance
DESCRIPTION:Date\nTuesday 16th March 2021\, 9.30-11.00 CET \nSpeaker\nBy Heli Vaaranen\,  Ph.D.in social sciences\, psychotherapist\, divorce mediator. Vaestoliitto\, Finland \nWorking language\nEnglish \nDescription\nLong-distance relationships have been growing in numbers for the past decades. Your loved one may not live in the same district\, city or even country as you. What to do then? Research tells us that long-distance couples are great communicators\, because they have to be. At the same time\, they suffer from seeing each other too seldom\, always waiting for and missing the other. They lack closeness and ordinary life as a couple\, whilst living a more romantic life than the average couple – every time they meet it may be like a romantic dream.  Couples suffer also from arguing. There are difficult things to solve\, for example where to live once we move in together? Long distance couples suffer also from the major difficulty of fitting together two very different lives\, and from the disappointment that after all\, the romantic partner is not what you expected. \nThe Family Federation of Finland has gathered together useful research\, free of charge on-line therapy sessions and information services\, such as podcasts\, about the challenges of long distance relationships.  Unfortunately\, this material exists so far only in Finnish. This webinar includes a description of these services and our experiences with long distance couples’ reality in the times of the pandemic\, as well as an overlook into the long distance couple relationships today. \n_______________________ \nMore information about the other webinars in the Breakfast Byte series. \nMissed it? You can watch the talks of the 2021 Breakfast bytes on our COFACE TV.
URL:https://coface-eu.org/event/loving-long-distance/
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SUMMARY:Looking beyond COVID-19 – Strengthening the role of Family Support Services
DESCRIPTION:Launch of OECD study – Looking beyond COVID-19: Strengthening the role of Family Support Services\nThe COVID-19 pandemic has created new challenges for many families: in addition to health and economic issues\, policy measures such as lockdowns\, school closures and teleworking from home out considerable stress on families. The COVID-19 pandemic has highlighted immediate needs such as regarding financial resources or education supports for many vulnerable families who are likely to be most affected by the long-term economic\, educational\, health\, and well-being consequences of the pandemic and Family services can play a key role in helping families cope with this situation. In that sense\, the pandemic underscores previously existing challenges for family support services as identified in the new OECD study on Family Support Services across the OECD. \nThis 2-hour webinar launched a new OECD study on family supports\, presenting the overall conclusions of the study\, and inviting reactions from different world regions. Participants from across Europe and beyond are invited to tune in and reflect together on how to operationalise the findings to boost the effectiveness of two-generation family support services. \nThis report is useful for policy-makers\, family professionals and researchers from OECD countries and beyond. \nThe working languages: English&Spanish. \nProgramme: EN/ES \nProgramme\n15.00-15.10 Welcome by the moderator Monika Queisser\, Head of Social Policy\, OECD \n15.10-15.30 Presentation of the OECD study findingsOlivier Thévenon\, OECD \n15.30-16.15 ReactionsAndrea Torres\, Programme Director\, Bernard Van Leer FoundationPetra Mackroth\, Director\, Ministry for social and family affairs\, GermanyDr Alina Turner\, Co-President at HelpSeeker\, and Fellow at the School of Public Policy\, University of Calgary\, Canada. \n16.15-16.45 Q&A with participants \n16.45-17.00 Closing and next stepsCOFACE President\, Annemie Drieskens
URL:https://coface-eu.org/event/looking-beyond-covid-19-strengthening-the-role-of-family-support-services/
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