feminist anthropology led to an increase in research from all over the world that focused on women. early feminist anthropologists in the united states and europe questioned whether women were considered unequal to men everywhere in the world, or if that was just true where they were from. they found that people think of and treat women as less important than men all over the world. feminism was needed everywhere. unfortunately, what a lot of feminists thought about as gender related issues that everyone faced were mostly things that educated white women from the united states and europe knew about and saw as issues. other perspectives about womanhood were expressed but they were not as common in academic writing or getting as much attention in anthropology. this was a big problem.