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Mar 2020

37m 48s

Exploring Gender Equality: Language Assi...

BRITISH COUNCIL

About this episode

With International Women's Day on 08 March, the Language Assistant podcast has carried out a special episode exploring gender within the programme itself and the British Council's work. On this episode, Finola is joined by Ceana from the Language Assistants Team, Anna from the Gender and Inclusion Team and Dalia from British Council Mexico.

Some useful links from today's podcast:

Gender in Education: Inspiring the Future

British Council Gender Equality Resources

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