The development of gender studies and feminist anthropology has evolved over time in relation to various relational and external factors. These positions grew from the simplicity of the terms and evolved into a broader movement of recognition, support, change and growth. However, since their first references to current times, gender studies and feminist anthropology have undergone a transition in focus and a seemingly hardening effect on the world around us. This article will examine the holistic view of gender and feminist anthropology to relationally examine current trends in gender research and current standing on these issues. Gender can be identified as a subset of anthropology and in the past was based on presumed biological differences and the “second” of cultural structures monitored, performed and understood in a given society (Oxford Index, 2012). Over the course of the 20th century and with the growth of sociocultural anthropology, the meaning and significance of gender have transformed. Early ethnographic studies illustrated how gender paralleled family and kinship, with little recognition of women and family issues. Even with the field's first female advocates, gender as a particular theoretical interest was not submerged until the late 1970s and throughout the 1980s. It was only then that women were no longer seen as a classification of culture and society separate from the normally functioning world. Numerous early literary works in anthropology were synonymous with perspectives generated by the interests of predominantly male ethnographers. Research on women and gender theory were generally included in references to family and kinship. With the work of supporters, the study of the gend...... in the center of the paper...... a wide range of different women's groups. In conjunction with feminist projects, the promotion of recognizing and listening to women's interests is ongoing. Wider feminist projects insist that women be heard, even with the possibility that they may have to adopt more refined methods of imposing authority through acts of resistance. Feminist scholars have been influential advocates for women's rights desire for pay equity throughout the United States and have emphasized that women have the right to make choices for themselves, free from male domination or predictive factors. However, there has been growing awareness that these factors that seek to be corrected are not necessarily problems for all women in the world. Feminist anthropology has attempted to emphasize their concerns and find ways in which these women can empower themselves to push for change..