[Event, Washington, DC] The Other Half of Gender: Men's Issues in Development

Environmental Change and Security Program invites you to a discussion of

The Other Half of Gender: Men's Issues in Development
featuring

Ian Bannon
Manager, Conflict Prevention and Reconstruction Unit, Social Development
Department, World Bank

Maria Correia
Program Manager, Multi-Country Demobilization and Reintegration Program,
Africa Region, World Bank

Mary Amuyunzu-Nyamongo
Executive Director, African Institute for Health and Development

Gary Barker
Chief Executive, Instituto Promundo

Michal Avni
Gender Adviser, Office of Population and Reproductive Health and
Coordinator of the Interagency Gender Working Group, U.S. Agency for
International Development

Monday, October 23, 2006
12:00 noon - 2:00 p.m.
6th Floor Moynihan Board Room
Woodrow Wilson International Center for Scholars 1300 Pennsylvania
Avenue, NW

Please RSVP to ecsp@wilsoncenter.org with your name and affiliation.

The Other Half of Gender: Men's Issues in Development brings the gender
and development debate full circle-from a much-needed focus on
empowering women to a more comprehensive gender framework that considers
gender as a set of socially constructed expectations for women and men's
behavior. The book acknowledges the slowly emerging realization that
attaining gender equality will be difficult, if not impossible, without
first changing the ways in which masculinity is defined and acted upon.

Please join us for a discussion with the book's editors, Ian Bannon and
Maria C. Correia, both of the World Bank. They will reflect on the
issues of gender and development, and also reflect on gender's
relationship to conflict concerns, including rising male unemployment,
the declining proportion of men in higher education, and boys'
underperformance in primary and secondary schools. Gary Barker and Mary
Amuyunzu-Nyamongo, contributors to the book, will discuss their research
on gender within the frameworks of health, development, and violence
prevention. Michal Avni will discuss programmatic implications for USAID
and other field-based organizations.

More information on The Other Half of Gender is available at:
http://publications.worldbank.org/ecommerce/catalog/product?item_id=5359
893.
Copies of the book will be available for purchase at the event.

If you are interested, but unable to attend the event, please tune into
the live or archived webcast at www.wilsoncenter.org/ecsp. You will need
Windows Media Player to watch the webcast. To download the free player,
visit: http://www.microsoft.com/windows/windowsmedia/download

Location: Woodrow Wilson Center at the Ronald Reagan Building, 1300
Pennsylvania Ave., NW ("Federal Triangle" stop on Blue/Orange Line), 6th
Floor Moynihan Board Room. A map to the Center is available at
www.wilsoncenter.org/directions. Note: Due to heightened security,
entrance to the building will be restricted and photo identification is
required. Please allow additional time to pass through security.

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Received on Wed Oct 18 09:36:33 2006