In celebration of International Women’s Month, the Philippine Embassy in Ottawa conducted a workshop on Gender Sensitivity on Thursday, 16 March 2017. The workshop, which was attended by all Embassy personnel, tackled gender concepts, the impact of culture and gender, and the use of gender fair language, with a view to maintaining gender sensitive workplaces and promoting gender mainstreaming as mandated by the Department of Foreign Affairs’ Gender and Development Plan and the Magna Carta of Women (RA 9710).