Webinar

Joint ILO-WTO Webinar on Gender, trade and labour market outcomes in Covid times

The Webinar will bring together academics, experts from international organisations, including from the WTO and ILO to discuss gender, trade and labour market outcomes with a specific emphasis on how the COVID-19 pandemic has affected employment, wages and other decent work indicators and on how trade can help make the recovery more inclusive.

Background

The event will help in developing a common understanding of the gender dimensions of trade, the challenges brought about by the COVID-19 pandemic, and their implications for a sustainable recovery. It will also help in preparing the next steps for joint ILO/WTO research related to the topic of gender and trade.

Agenda

Moderators: 
  • Roberta Piermartini, Chief of Trade Costs Analysis, WTO 
  • Marva Corley-Coulibaly, Chief, Globalization, Competitiveness and Labour Standards unit, ILO Research
Introduction
  • Angela Ellard, Deputy Director-General, WTO
  • Martha Newton, Deputy Director-General for Policy, ILO
 
Impact of Covid-19 on female employment and wages
  • Matthias Doepke, Research Professor, Northwestern University
  • Q&A
Impact of Covid-19 on female employment and wages: trade dimension
  • Sheba Tejani, Lecturer, University of Birmingham
  • Q&A
Panel discussion: focus on role of trade in creating decent work for women in the recovery
  • Jane Korinek, Economist and Policy Analyst, OECD
  • John Bluedorn, Deputy Division Chief, World Economic Outlook, IMF
  • Stephanie Barrientos, Professor, Global Development Institute, The University of Manchester