Women as Change Agents in the World’s Rangelands: Synthesis and Way ForwardiiWe synthesize findings reported from papers based on invited presentations given at a symposium entitled Women as Change Agents in the World’s Rangelands, held Tuesday 5 February 2013, at the 66th Annual Meeting of the Society for Range Management (SRM) in Oklahoma City, Oklahoma. The International Affairs Committee of SRM organized this symposium. General information about the symposium is posted at: http://www.rangelands.org/internationalaffairs/iac_symposia.shtml. This paper occurs at the end of a special issue of Rangelands that contains the aforementioned papers. Hence, this paper serves as a summary rather than an introduction. Those interested in details on methods or research perspectives should read the contributed papers.