Articles appearing in Gender & Society analyze gender and gendered processes in interactions, organizations, societies, and global and transnational spaces. The journal primarily publishes empirical articles, which are both theoretically engaged and methodologically rigorous, including qualitative, quantitative, and comparative-historical methodologies.

Some of the relevant, timely, and important topics covered in recent issues include:
• Activism and Social Movements
• Class Inequality
• Division of Household Labor
• Feminist Identity
• Gay, Lesbian, Bisexual, Transgender, and Queer Studies
• Gender and Migration
• Gender and Work
• Gendered Bodies
• Health and Carework
• Heteronormativity
• Intimate Partner Violence
• Masculinities
• Media Representations
• Parenting
• Politics and Gender
• Race, Gender, and Class Discrimination
• Reproductive Technology
• Religion and Gender
• Sexual Harassment
• Sexualities
• Welfare Reform

Gender & Society not only publishes the best of every perspective but seeks to advance a distinctly social perspective with which to analyze gender