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Webinar - Father engagement amidst the COVID-19 pandemic

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To date, literature highlights key obstacles and enablers of COVID-19 to gender equity in parenting and increased father engagement. Specifically, long held obstacles seem to be still in place, as the coronavirus pandemic has given new urgency to many of the challenges women have faced for a long time, and the care burden on women is higher due to the pay gap and social norms.

However, the COVID-19 pandemic and the mitigation measures taken to tackle it have changed enormously our lives in many ways. For example, during the pandemic, fathers have spent more time at home, and this has been an opportunity for them to engage more in their children’s education, care and upbringing. Workplace realities have also changed for fathers and mothers alike, with home-based work prevailing.

Why joining this webinar:
- Learn about the major opportunities and challenges that the crisis caused by COVID-19 pandemic and the measures taken to tackle it pose to different family members. To what extent and how mothers’ and fathers’ engagement have changed during the pandemic?
- Be inspired by the effective and innovative approaches implemented to pursue increased father engagement during the pandemic, in the context of existing and new programs.
- Reflect together about the main gaps in knowledge, research, policy and practice as well as about the remaining challenges on increasing father engagement in the short and long term.
-Benefit from lessons learned in pursuing different approaches and mobilizing different actors in order to encourage men to play more active roles in their families.

Panelists:
- Tatiana Gonçalves Moura, Senior Researcher, Centre for Social Studies at University of Coimbra, and Coordinator of Promundo, Portugal
- Mariam Bandzeladze, Program Manager, UNFPA CO Georgia
- Alona Abt, Co-Founder and CEO of Hop! Media Group, Israel
- Jozef Atrash, Co-Founder and Chairman, Shoof Media LTD, Israel

Moderator:
Konstantina Rentzou, Senior Program Manager, ISSA
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