This discriminatory gender division of labor is in fact a fairly typical pattern in ecotourism projects where the cultural and gender norms of patriarchal societies, and the threat of violence from men. ition women as weaker than men. and thereby largely prohibit them from employment as ecotourism guides(Schellhorn, 2010). However, there is further complexity behind this general pattern. For example, the same woman who was considered too weak for the physical labor of ecotourism guiding is now in a leadership position as Deputy Chief of the CBET project, allowing her some measure of agency in the project. In other CB projects, women have been successfully trained to become ecotourism guides. A local training initiative for women Nepal, example, now has over 400 women alumni, who are in high demand women ecotourism guides(EWN, 2011).