【International Symposium】Care Economy: Towards the Achievement of SDGs
【Date】Wednesday-February 20, 2019
【Time】13:30～16:30
【Venue】Okayama University, 50th Anniversary Hall(1-1-1, Tsushima-naka, Kita-ku, Okayama)
【Title】Care Economy: Towards the Achievement of SDGs
【Outline】
In Japan and other countries, women bear most of household chores and care of child, the elderly and other household members at home for free of charge. For this ‘unpaid care work,’ in 2016 Japanese women, on average spent 3 hours 28 minutes per day whereas Japanese men spent only 44 minutes. While Japanese men spent longer hours on paid work than women, when the unpaid and paid work combined, Japanese women worked longer hours than men (The 2016 survey on time use and leisure activities).
The Sustainable Development Goal Target 5.4 calls for recognizing and valuing “unpaid care and domestic work through the provision of public services, infrastructure and social protection policies and the promotion of shared responsibilities. This event aims at creating awareness of the ‘care economy’ derived from reducing unpaid care work through the provision of public services, infrastructure and social protection, and providing a space to discuss the new research agenda as well as the ways to reflect the research findings better on the policy-making, based on the Asian case studies including Japan.
【Schedule】
12.30-13.30 Registration
13.30-13.50 Opening Remarks Hirofumi Makino, President of Okayama University
13.50-14.50 Keynote Speech (Care Economy and Sustainable Development) Dr. Maria S. Floro, Economics, College of Arts & Science, American University, USA
14.50-15.00 Break
15.00-16.15 Panel Discussion (Care-centered democracy, economic and social policies for Sustainable Development)」
Panelists：
Dr. Ito Peng, Munk School of Global Affairs ＆ Public Policy, University of Toronto, Canada
Dr. Hee-Kang Kim, College of Political Science & Economics, Korea University
Dr. Rintaro Mori, Regional Advisor on Population Ageing and Sustainable Development, United Nations Population Fund (UNFPA) Asia-Pacific Office
Ms. Akiko Taguchi, Director, International Labour Organization (ILO) Office for Japan
Moderator: Yumiko Yamamoto, Lecturer, Center for Global Partnerships and Education, Okayama University
16.15-16.30 Closing remarks Atsufumi Yokoi, Vice President for Global Engagement Strategy, Okayama University
【Language】English/Japanese (with simultaneous interpretation)
【Registration】Open to everyone
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【Admission Fee】 Free
【Organizer】Okayama University
【Support】Promotion Council for Support of G20 Health Minister's Meeting
Contact information
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