International Equal Pay Day 2021 Celebration
Friday, September 17th, 2021.
9:00 – 10:30 ET, 15:00 – 16:30 CEST
Register here: https://bit.ly/equalpayday2021
This year’s celebration will focus on the efforts of key labour market actors to ensure that equal pay remains central to pandemic responses worldwide and to fully recognize the contributions of women to COVID-19 recovery. The event aims to achieve a reinvigorated commitment to closing the gender pay gap across regions and sectors to build forward better from the COVID-19 pandemic.
Moderator
Sharanjit Leyl, International News Journalist
Panellists
Governments
- H.E. Katrín Jakobsdóttir, Prime Minister, Iceland (Video Message)
- H.E. Jacinda Ardern, Prime Minister, New Zealand (TBC) (Video Message)
- H.E. Marcela Guerrero Campos, Minister for the Status of Women, Costa Rica
- H.E. Erika Mouynes, Minister of Foreign Affairs, Panama (TBC)
- Ms.Thea Lee, Deputy Undersecretary for International Affairs, Department of Labor, USA
- Ms. Wendy Chun-Hoon, Director, Women’s Bureau, Department of Labor, USA
- Dr. Abdessatar Mouelhi, Director, Institut National du Travail et des Etudes Sociales (INTES) at Université de Carthage, Tunisia
- Mr Andrii Radchuk, State Expert, Ministry of Economy, Ukraine
Heads of Agencies
- Mr. Guy Ryder, Director-General, ILO
- Mr. Mathias Cormann, Secretary-General, OECD UN Women
- Ms. Åsa Regnér, Deputy Executive Director, UN Women, or Executive Director of UN Women (TBC)
- Ms. Louisa Thipe, 2nd Deputy President, Congress of South African Trade Unions
- Employers’ Representative (TBC)
- Ms. Anika Dorothy Jane, East Africa Coordinator, AMPLIFY
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