In the traditional social science and humanities research, gender research is very neglected, which is mainly manifested in the following aspects.

In the traditional social science and humanities research, gender research is very neglected, which is mainly manifested in its functionalist tradition.

According to functionalism, gender is not an important issue. Although people of different sexes have some differences in material interests and rights, these differences are functionally necessary and do not constitute social injustice. This has caused contempt for gender studies.

Main performance aspects:

The traditional research topic of social scientists ignores the study of female groups, and humanistic scientists fail to pay attention to the unique existence of female groups. Social sciences tend to regard society as a whole composed of a single gender, while humanities, even if they find women, do not give them their own voices.

Both social scientists and humanities scientists seldom study gender as an important factor. Among the general topics emphasized by society, topics related to science are not uncommon. However, when these problems are not examined and studied from the perspective of gender, people will ignore these topics from the perspective of gender relevance and understand them unilaterally.

Research on gender issues in foreign history textbooks;

1, the quality characteristics of textbook characters

Refers to the thoughts, cognition and personality of men and women appearing in textbooks. In the 1940s, western academic circles began to pay attention to gender issues in textbooks. In the subsequent research, it is found that there is a gender bias of "men are superior to women" in textbooks at all times and in all countries.

It conveys the merits and demerits of men and the patriarchal social ideology in history. Experts and scholars at home and abroad have found that the gender problem in textbooks has become a common problem in different countries and regions.

2. Gender perspective

From the perspective of gender, gender analysis in many fields of natural science and humanities and social sciences has become a distinctive research category in western society, which is reflected in the emergence of a new gender perspective on historical society, culture and even knowledge tradition.