Panel discussion - International Families Day 2012

INTERNATIONAL DAY OF FAMILIES 2012 “Ensuring Work-Family Balance” Panel discussion organized by the Division for Social Policy and Development/Department of Economic and Social Affairs in cooperation with the NY NGO Committee on the Family Tuesday, 15 May, 2012 Conference Room 6, 1:15 – 2:45 p.m.

Moderator Professor Margaret O’Brien Co-Director, Centre for Research on the Child and Family University of East Anglia Panellists Dr. Jody Heymann Canada Research Chair in Global Health and Social Policy McGill University Families at Work: What we Know about Conditions Globally Dr. Meejung Chin Department of Child Development & Family Studies Seoul National University Demographic Changes and Work-Family Balance Policies in East Asia Dr. Corina Rodríguez Enríquez Consejo Nacional de Investigaciones Cientificas y Tecnicas, Centro Interdiciplinario para el Estudio de Políticas Públicas, Argentina Work-family balance issues in Latin America: a Roadmap for National Care Systems Dr. Nurper Ulkuer Chief, Early Childhood Development Unit United Nations Children’s Fund The Importance of Quality Child Care for Work-Family Balance Discussion