 I'm an Australian volunteer working with the International Livestock Research Institute in Hanoi Vietnam. I've been there on a 12 month assignment working with the Food Safety Safe Pork project. I believe that I've had many aha moments thinking about gender and livestock development and I'm sure as my career progresses and I meet and work with men and women all over the world that I'll have many more. One recent time that I remember was at a large meeting and we were discussing our roles of men and women and it was asked, the group was asked whether it is true that men build the house and women build the home. So many people thought that this was true that it is men that build the house and it is women that build a family environment. However when you walk around the city and across many different villages you see women on the construction sites and women working with their families to build a house. It was a aha moment when you realise that these women are now invisible, that their work is not seen by many people that are looking straight at them. When we're in the field we were talking to a male farmer about livestock and through the interview he said he couldn't answer a question because it was his wife that looked after the animals. It was our preconceived ideas and our own beliefs that led us to talk to the wrong person in this case and it just showed again that even though we might see these women working on the farm that again their faces are invisible.