--- title: Gary Barker | TIME description: Gary Barker, Ph.D., is founder and International Director of Promundo, an international organization with offices in the United States, Brazil and Portugal and representatives in Rwanda and Burundi, that works to engage men and boys in gender equality and ending violence against women. canonical: https://time.com/author/gary-barker/ og:title: TIME | Current & Breaking News | National & World Updates og:description: Breaking news and analysis from time.com. Politics, world news, photos, video, tech reviews, health, science, and entertainment news. og:url: https://time.com/author/gary-barker/ og:site_name: TIME og:image: https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/bltde093bcdab65f2d0/6988d9b9bc6cfc69913e2a3c/time-logo.jpg?branch=production og:image:width: 300 og:image:height: 300 og:image:alt: Breaking news and analysis from time.com. Politics, world news, photos, video, tech reviews, health, science, and entertainment news. og:type: profile twitter:card: summary twitter:title: TIME | Current & Breaking News | National & World Updates twitter:description: Breaking news and analysis from time.com. Politics, world news, photos, video, tech reviews, health, science, and entertainment news. twitter:image: https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/bltde093bcdab65f2d0/6988d9b9bc6cfc69913e2a3c/time-logo.jpg?branch=production --- # Gary Barker ## Gary Barker _Gary Barker, Ph.D., is founder and International Director of_ [_Promundo_](http://www.promundo.org.br/en)_, an international organization with offices in the United States, Brazil and Portugal and representatives in Rwanda and Burundi, that works to engage men and boys in gender equality and ending violence against women._ ## Gary Barker *  Aug 14, 2024 ### [The Precarious Online Lives of Young Men](https://time.com/7010220/young-men-mental-health-online-essay/) Lots of young men feel adrift. As a result, they often find solace in violent spaces online, write G... [IDEAS](/section/ideas/) *  Jun 15, 2016 ### [Why America’s Fathers Aren’t Living Up to Expectations](https://time.com/4355643/fathers-day-expectations/) We must encourage more dads to be caregivers at home [IDEAS](/section/ideas/) *  Nov 26, 2014 ### [The Most Destructive Gender Binary](https://time.com/3606536/destructive-gender-binary/) We need to show the world just how much each gender depends on the other, and how men, too, benefit ... [IDEAS](/section/ideas/) *  Aug 7, 2014 ### [The Crisis of Minority Boys](https://time.com/3083196/minority-men-boys-education/) Young men and boys of color are trailing minority girls and white boys in education, and their job p... [IDEAS](/section/ideas/) Meta: null ```json [{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"Organization","@id":"https://time.com/","name":"TIME","url":"https://time.com/","logo":{"@type":"ImageObject","url":"https://time.com/images/logo.png","width":528,"height":156},"foundingDate":"March 3, 1923","sameAs":["https://www.facebook.com/time","https://www.instagram.com/time/?hl=en","https://twitter.com/time","https://www.pinterest.com/timemagazine"]},{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"BreadcrumbList","itemListElement":[{"@type":"ListItem","position":1,"item":{"@id":"https://time.com/","name":"Home"}},{"@type":"ListItem","position":2,"item":{"@id":"https://time.com/author/gary-barker/","name":"Gary Barker"}}]},{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"Person","@id":"https://time.com/author/gary-barker/","mainEntityOfPage":{"@type":"WebPage","@id":"https://time.com/author/gary-barker/"},"name":"Gary Barker","jobTitle":null,"description":"Gary Barker, Ph.D., is founder and International Director of Promundo, an international organization with offices in the United States, Brazil and Portugal and representatives in Rwanda and Burundi, that works to engage men and boys in gender equality and ending violence against women.","url":"https://time.com/author/gary-barker/","worksFor":{"@type":"Organization","name":"TIME","url":"https://time.com/"}}] ```