Carol Lethaby
@clethaby.bsky.social
English language teacher, teacher educator, author
Co-author of 'Women in ELT: The brain, language and power'
(2025) Pavilion ELT
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Co-author of 'Women in ELT: The brain, language and power'
(2025) Pavilion ELT
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Carol Lethaby
@clethaby.bsky.social
· Jul 8
Our brand new book is out!
Women in ELT: The brain, language and power
In it, we explore the origins of gender inequality and provide lots of practical ideas and strategies for action in the field of ELT.
More info here: pavpub.com/pavilion-elt...
#ELT #ESL #EFL #WomeninELT #IATEFL #TESOL
Women in ELT: The brain, language and power
In it, we explore the origins of gender inequality and provide lots of practical ideas and strategies for action in the field of ELT.
More info here: pavpub.com/pavilion-elt...
#ELT #ESL #EFL #WomeninELT #IATEFL #TESOL
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My bit on why languages are brilliant and multilingual education is good for all
www.thenational.scot/politics/256...
www.thenational.scot/politics/256...
Alison Phipps: Monolingualism was invented to serve capitalism and colonialism
THE majority of the world’s mother tongue is multilingual. The vast majority of the world’s people are multilingual people. Indeed, the idea of…
www.thenational.scot
December 7, 2025 at 4:43 AM
My bit on why languages are brilliant and multilingual education is good for all
www.thenational.scot/politics/256...
www.thenational.scot/politics/256...
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Across the top 592 podcasts, where 66.3% of hosts were men; 33.2% women. In top 100 podcasts, 72.8% of guests were men; 27.2% women. 62.6% of episodes did not feature a woman guest. Women most likely to appear as a guest when podcast had a woman host.
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USC Annenberg releases a new study exploring the gender and race/ethnicity of hosts and guests of popular podcasts
The first-ever Golden Globe Award nominations for podcasting will be announced this month, as the medium continues its growing popularity across the entertainment landscape. As podcasts audiences
annenberg.usc.edu
November 14, 2025 at 7:37 PM
Across the top 592 podcasts, where 66.3% of hosts were men; 33.2% women. In top 100 podcasts, 72.8% of guests were men; 27.2% women. 62.6% of episodes did not feature a woman guest. Women most likely to appear as a guest when podcast had a woman host.
annenberg.usc.edu/news/researc...
annenberg.usc.edu/news/researc...
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Have you browsed our new catalogue yet?
Find all our exciting new and forthcoming titles on language education, sociolinguistics, bilingualism, decolonisation, migration studies and more here: buff.ly/5TG0o7M
#langchat
Find all our exciting new and forthcoming titles on language education, sociolinguistics, bilingualism, decolonisation, migration studies and more here: buff.ly/5TG0o7M
#langchat
November 14, 2025 at 2:03 PM
Have you browsed our new catalogue yet?
Find all our exciting new and forthcoming titles on language education, sociolinguistics, bilingualism, decolonisation, migration studies and more here: buff.ly/5TG0o7M
#langchat
Find all our exciting new and forthcoming titles on language education, sociolinguistics, bilingualism, decolonisation, migration studies and more here: buff.ly/5TG0o7M
#langchat
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This is fascinating:
how did i go so long not knowing we were literally teaching people to read wrong. i knew something wasn't right but jesus christ www.apmreports.org/episode/2019...
How a flawed idea is teaching millions of kids to be poor readers
For decades, schools have taught children the strategies of struggling readers, using a theory about reading that cognitive scientists have repeatedly debunked. And many teachers and parents don't kno...
www.apmreports.org
November 12, 2025 at 4:39 PM
This is fascinating:
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Study finds people overestimated a company’s gender diversity after learning there were women in top mgmt, which led to less likelihood of hiring a woman. A few prominent examples can create the illusion that equality has been achieved, when it has not.
www.forbes.com/sites/kimels...
www.forbes.com/sites/kimels...
How Seeing Women In Power Can Slow Real Change, And What To Do About It
New research suggests the visibility of a few successful women may make people believe that sufficient equality has already been achieved, even when it hasn’t.
www.forbes.com
November 10, 2025 at 6:40 PM
Study finds people overestimated a company’s gender diversity after learning there were women in top mgmt, which led to less likelihood of hiring a woman. A few prominent examples can create the illusion that equality has been achieved, when it has not.
www.forbes.com/sites/kimels...
www.forbes.com/sites/kimels...
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Kristen Stewart: "I am not grateful to a boys' club business model that pretends to want to hang out with us while siphoning our resources and belittling our true perspectives. Let's try and not be tokenised. Let's start printing our own currency." www.bbc.com/news/article...
Kristen Stewart 'so angry Hollywood has gone backwards' for women after MeToo boost
The star gives an impassioned speech saying progress for female film-makers has reversed in recent years.
www.bbc.com
November 5, 2025 at 1:39 PM
Kristen Stewart: "I am not grateful to a boys' club business model that pretends to want to hang out with us while siphoning our resources and belittling our true perspectives. Let's try and not be tokenised. Let's start printing our own currency." www.bbc.com/news/article...
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New blog post!
"Our book was decisively translated into Spanish to address the aggressions that Indigenous youth experience, not as isolated incidents but as part of a broader, systematic problem that spans Mexico and the US..."
Read on here:
"Our book was decisively translated into Spanish to address the aggressions that Indigenous youth experience, not as isolated incidents but as part of a broader, systematic problem that spans Mexico and the US..."
Read on here:
Entre múltiples mundos / Between Multiple Worlds: Indigenous Mexican Voices in US Education
We recently published the Spanish edition of Culturally Responsive Schooling for Indigenous Mexican Students entitled Escolaridad culturalmente sensible para estudiantes indígenas mexicanos by Will…
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November 4, 2025 at 4:38 PM
New blog post!
"Our book was decisively translated into Spanish to address the aggressions that Indigenous youth experience, not as isolated incidents but as part of a broader, systematic problem that spans Mexico and the US..."
Read on here:
"Our book was decisively translated into Spanish to address the aggressions that Indigenous youth experience, not as isolated incidents but as part of a broader, systematic problem that spans Mexico and the US..."
Read on here:
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"El fascinante libro de Perez y Vásquez derriba uno de los obstáculos mayúsculos que enfrentan los alumnos indígenas en las escuelas de Estados Unidos – y de México –: el haber sido despojados de su auténtica ontología." buff.ly/7GMagLi
November 3, 2025 at 4:50 PM
"El fascinante libro de Perez y Vásquez derriba uno de los obstáculos mayúsculos que enfrentan los alumnos indígenas en las escuelas de Estados Unidos – y de México –: el haber sido despojados de su auténtica ontología." buff.ly/7GMagLi
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Babies’ Brains Recognize Foreign Languages They Heard before Birth
Babies Start Processing Foreign Languages before They Are Born
Babies process foreign languages they heard in utero much like their mother tongue, researchers find
buff.ly
November 1, 2025 at 8:15 PM
Babies’ Brains Recognize Foreign Languages They Heard before Birth
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If you fancy taking a look at the new MM catalogue for inspiration and info of new books in our wonderful PLLT series, follow this link for the pdf catalogue! Happy reading! www.multilingual-matters.com/resources/pd...
www.multilingual-matters.com
October 23, 2025 at 3:01 PM
If you fancy taking a look at the new MM catalogue for inspiration and info of new books in our wonderful PLLT series, follow this link for the pdf catalogue! Happy reading! www.multilingual-matters.com/resources/pd...
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Women have powered the economy:
- First money was cloth, woven by women
- Ancient Roman women owned ships, shops & clay beds
- Huang Dao Po created a multiple thread spinning wheel, making China center of global cloth production
- Created consumer banking
www.fastcompany.com/91416986/fiv...
- First money was cloth, woven by women
- Ancient Roman women owned ships, shops & clay beds
- Huang Dao Po created a multiple thread spinning wheel, making China center of global cloth production
- Created consumer banking
www.fastcompany.com/91416986/fiv...
Five ways women have historically powered the economy
Here are just five of the (many) ways that women have powered the global economy from the Stone Age to the present day.
www.fastcompany.com
October 12, 2025 at 11:37 PM
Women have powered the economy:
- First money was cloth, woven by women
- Ancient Roman women owned ships, shops & clay beds
- Huang Dao Po created a multiple thread spinning wheel, making China center of global cloth production
- Created consumer banking
www.fastcompany.com/91416986/fiv...
- First money was cloth, woven by women
- Ancient Roman women owned ships, shops & clay beds
- Huang Dao Po created a multiple thread spinning wheel, making China center of global cloth production
- Created consumer banking
www.fastcompany.com/91416986/fiv...
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Language Revitalization Boosts Indigenous Health
Language Revitalization Boosts Indigenous Health
New research shows that reviving Indigenous languages may do more than preserve culture—it may also improve public health. In British Columbia, First Nations youth who speak their ancestral language…
buff.ly
October 12, 2025 at 2:30 PM
Language Revitalization Boosts Indigenous Health
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What if we invited them in? Using learners’ languages to support English
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October 11, 2025 at 9:02 AM
What if we invited them in? Using learners’ languages to support English
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New book out on foreign-language teaching and learning
By recognising and honouring existing foreign learner resources/knowledge, this book stresses the need to draw upon first- and additional language/cultural experiences and give learners interpersonal and transactional participative choices.
By recognising and honouring existing foreign learner resources/knowledge, this book stresses the need to draw upon first- and additional language/cultural experiences and give learners interpersonal and transactional participative choices.
October 9, 2025 at 5:18 PM
New book out on foreign-language teaching and learning
By recognising and honouring existing foreign learner resources/knowledge, this book stresses the need to draw upon first- and additional language/cultural experiences and give learners interpersonal and transactional participative choices.
By recognising and honouring existing foreign learner resources/knowledge, this book stresses the need to draw upon first- and additional language/cultural experiences and give learners interpersonal and transactional participative choices.
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Such a pleasure to talk with @tespiteri.bsky.social on the HPS Podcast about Patriarchy Inc.
@allenandunwin.bsky.social
@wwnortonuk.bsky.social
@atlanticbooks.bsky.social
@allenandunwin.bsky.social
@wwnortonuk.bsky.social
@atlanticbooks.bsky.social
I sat down with Prof. Cordelia Fine for an in-depth discussion about her wonderful new book “Patriarchy, Inc.”
She critiques two dominant stories of inequality — the “different but equal” view and the “business case for diversity” — and sets out a richer vision of what equality should mean today.
She critiques two dominant stories of inequality — the “different but equal” view and the “business case for diversity” — and sets out a richer vision of what equality should mean today.
S5 E10 - Cordelia Fine on
Podcast Episode · The HPS Podcast - Conversations from History, Philosophy and Social Studies of Science · 03/10/2025 · 53m
podcasts.apple.com
October 5, 2025 at 8:43 PM
Such a pleasure to talk with @tespiteri.bsky.social on the HPS Podcast about Patriarchy Inc.
@allenandunwin.bsky.social
@wwnortonuk.bsky.social
@atlanticbooks.bsky.social
@allenandunwin.bsky.social
@wwnortonuk.bsky.social
@atlanticbooks.bsky.social
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I was very pleased to talk with Morteza Hajizadeh about Patriarchy Inc. for the New Books Network.
newbooksnetwork.com/patriarchy-inc
newbooksnetwork.com/patriarchy-inc
Cordelia Fine, "Patriarchy Inc.: What We Get Wrong About Gender Equality – and Why Men Still Win at Work" (W.W. Norton, 2025) - New Books Network
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September 4, 2025 at 11:46 PM
I was very pleased to talk with Morteza Hajizadeh about Patriarchy Inc. for the New Books Network.
newbooksnetwork.com/patriarchy-inc
newbooksnetwork.com/patriarchy-inc
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"This book redefines the role of emotions in shaping teacher identity, wellbeing and teaching practices. A must-read for educators, researchers, policymakers, and anyone interested in learning more about how teachers feel!" buff.ly/5hOeZMs
September 3, 2025 at 11:02 AM
"This book redefines the role of emotions in shaping teacher identity, wellbeing and teaching practices. A must-read for educators, researchers, policymakers, and anyone interested in learning more about how teachers feel!" buff.ly/5hOeZMs
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Check out this piece from our author Maggie Kubanyiova, whose book (co-edited with Parinita Shetty) has been shortlisted for the BAAL book prize: buff.ly/OauzVIq
We'll be bringing Maggie and Parinita's book to #BAAL2025 in Glasgow this week, so make sure to drop by the MM stand and take a look!
We'll be bringing Maggie and Parinita's book to #BAAL2025 in Glasgow this week, so make sure to drop by the MM stand and take a look!
September 3, 2025 at 2:00 PM
Check out this piece from our author Maggie Kubanyiova, whose book (co-edited with Parinita Shetty) has been shortlisted for the BAAL book prize: buff.ly/OauzVIq
We'll be bringing Maggie and Parinita's book to #BAAL2025 in Glasgow this week, so make sure to drop by the MM stand and take a look!
We'll be bringing Maggie and Parinita's book to #BAAL2025 in Glasgow this week, so make sure to drop by the MM stand and take a look!
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Join our symposium on "Cognitive and Motivational Individual Differences in the Effectiveness of Desirable Difficulties" today at 12:15 in HS01.15. #earli2025
Looking forward to discuss the interesting work presented as part of this symposium.
Looking forward to discuss the interesting work presented as part of this symposium.
August 27, 2025 at 9:06 AM
Join our symposium on "Cognitive and Motivational Individual Differences in the Effectiveness of Desirable Difficulties" today at 12:15 in HS01.15. #earli2025
Looking forward to discuss the interesting work presented as part of this symposium.
Looking forward to discuss the interesting work presented as part of this symposium.
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Women are about 1/2 of federal employees & have higher representation in agencies targeted for cuts (USAID-59%; SSA-66%; EPA-54%). Mid-career women should be climbing the ladder, but it is a systemic block when heavily-female staffed offices are targeted for cuts. www.forbes.com/sites/sheila...
Federal Job Cuts Are Pushing Women Out At Every Career Stage
Federal job cuts are disproportionately pushing women—especially Black and Hispanic women—out of public service, threatening careers and retirement security.
www.forbes.com
August 22, 2025 at 12:20 AM
Women are about 1/2 of federal employees & have higher representation in agencies targeted for cuts (USAID-59%; SSA-66%; EPA-54%). Mid-career women should be climbing the ladder, but it is a systemic block when heavily-female staffed offices are targeted for cuts. www.forbes.com/sites/sheila...
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Delighted to share that PATRIARCHY INC. is published in North America this week with @wwnorton.com
wwnorton.com/books/978132...
wwnorton.com/books/978132...
August 21, 2025 at 11:12 PM
Delighted to share that PATRIARCHY INC. is published in North America this week with @wwnorton.com
wwnorton.com/books/978132...
wwnorton.com/books/978132...
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Delighted to share that my book is now available for pre-order. @channel-view.bsky.social @multi-ling-mat.bsky.social www.multilingual-matters.com/page/detail/...
August 19, 2025 at 1:13 PM
Delighted to share that my book is now available for pre-order. @channel-view.bsky.social @multi-ling-mat.bsky.social www.multilingual-matters.com/page/detail/...
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This new Handbook brings together the viewpoints of academics, practitioners, artists and people seeking refuge in Scotland to explore the global learnings that can be gained from this context.
30% off your print copy with code HIR30 and digital version available open access!
buff.ly/j12AWU2
30% off your print copy with code HIR30 and digital version available open access!
buff.ly/j12AWU2
August 19, 2025 at 11:05 AM
This new Handbook brings together the viewpoints of academics, practitioners, artists and people seeking refuge in Scotland to explore the global learnings that can be gained from this context.
30% off your print copy with code HIR30 and digital version available open access!
buff.ly/j12AWU2
30% off your print copy with code HIR30 and digital version available open access!
buff.ly/j12AWU2
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Flash Sale! GLASS WALLS is available for 30% off via @bloomsburybooksus.bsky.social now through Sunday August 17.
Get your copy to learn how to identify workplace gender bias and how to shatter it.
www.bloomsbury.com/us/glass-wal...
Get your copy to learn how to identify workplace gender bias and how to shatter it.
www.bloomsbury.com/us/glass-wal...
Glass Walls
“The practicality and clarity make this a valuable contribution to collections in academic and public libraries.” - Booklist, Starred ReviewA new, important, an…
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August 16, 2025 at 5:36 PM
Flash Sale! GLASS WALLS is available for 30% off via @bloomsburybooksus.bsky.social now through Sunday August 17.
Get your copy to learn how to identify workplace gender bias and how to shatter it.
www.bloomsbury.com/us/glass-wal...
Get your copy to learn how to identify workplace gender bias and how to shatter it.
www.bloomsbury.com/us/glass-wal...