A content analysis of one of the top five bestselling Introduction to Sociology college textbooks reveals how the way teachers write about gender in sociology has not significantly changed in the last twenty to thirty years. Gender is still discussed primarily as a women's issue, while men are not directly linked to the social construction of gender. Men theorists and researchers continue to dominate the examples of sociological expertise beyond the femininized domains of family and gender. Sociology as a field needs critical analysis of how gender is discussed and must move beyond the myth that gender problems are primarily women's issues and analyze gender inequality from its source, hegemonic masculinity.
