Gender, what is the exact meaning of this world in society. When people talk about gender in conversation, it's probably a way of distinguishing whether you're a man or a woman. According to Merriam-Webster, gender is described as the state of being a man or a woman. The importance of the definition proposed by Merriam-Webster lies in the “state of being” part. Anyone in their own culture/society can define themselves as male or female, without any biological influence. Gender issues have become a controversial topic, but how did the history of gender come about? The theme of gender in historical terms could not have started without women, unhappy with their representation in history, who were not. Green and Troup have organized their chapter on gender history into 4 different topics, explaining the importance of gender in history and analyzing problems with certain research methods. Although gender is a major issue, Green and Troup focus on women's influence on the creation of gender history. . The point made in this chapter is that, without women's discontent and their almost zero representation in history, gender history would never have existed, in this case women's history. Before elaborating on women's history, Green and Troup explained that gender is a set of cultural behaviors established for the sexes in a given society. The definition gives way to how gender is used to explain feminist analysis of history. The majority of early historians began researching the lives and social class of women in the past and sometimes based on stories of famous female figures. Historians of Western ideologies began to develop a new method to describe the past lives of women. Many lean towards the side of Marxist history, which looks at the different...... middle of article...... think that quantitative history is a great addition to gender history because the information Statistics will provide empirical evidence on the subject. . A useful quantitative method would be a graph on the subject, women's occupation and marriage rate during World War II. The chart can provide statistics on the rise of women in factories and the decline of marriage. Statistics will show a clearer cause and effect argument. The history of gender would not be possible without the rise of women and their stubborn goal to earn a place in the history books. Early historians developed a simpler view, which simply classified all women as being similar in class. As historians developed more critical analysis, they included many social factors to explain the changing status of women. Women created gender history, and now the doors are open for other gender issues to be researched.