ABSTRACT
This chapter takes stock of successes and ongoing obstacles to involving men in development efforts in the region, in the context of the move in Latin America and the rest of the world from a period up until the 1990s, when the branch of development work was referred to as Women in Development, to the professed inclusion of men in development work after the mid-1990s, that was accompanied by a nominal change of the overarching term for this branch of development work to Gender and Development. A central enigma of gender and development is that what happens to women can and does affect the men in their lives, both negatively and positively. Development in the area of reproductive health provides good illustrations of the perennial issue of structural factors and individual choice, as well as the fact that gender and development in Latin America still largely operates within a binary framework.
