 The Consortium Board asked the Consortium Office to first develop a CGIR-wide gender strategy and subsequently we asked the CRPs to come up with their strategy to make sure that gender research, research that ensures that both men and women have equal access or fair access to the new technologies that we develop, that the technologies we develop aren't favoring men, that we develop technologies that are suitable for female-headed households for women working in agriculture, all slew of things, that we do this appropriately because of course agriculture is still very much a male-dominated business. Now we're making good progress on that. We're hiring probably more gender researchers than ever before. Some of our programs are really strong. Gender in agriculture is enormous. Women in agriculture is enormous. Certainly in rice we see what's called the feminization of agriculture, you have outmigration of men from the rural areas. Women are becoming more and more managers of the overall farming sector in many parts of the developing world, certainly in rice-based economies. When we look at the situation of women in rice cultivation, rice cultivation could be among the worst jobs in the world in terms of preparing the land, transplanting rice, weeding in the mud up to your knees is very, very picturesque for the backbreaking. It is backbreaking. And women are the women, are the people who typically do the transplanting, who typically do the hand-weeding, who typically are engaged in the harvesting. All of these are very, very difficult operations. Not only difficult, but time-consuming. I think using human capital for that is the worst use of human capital. So I think anything we can do that can free up people from this burden that falls disproportionately on women is probably among the most effective gender approaches that we could have.