The purpose of this essay is to take a historic look at how women and men are portrayed in war. I also want to try to shine a light on the common people that don’t belonged topsheet and how this has changed over time. To narrow my research down I have chosen to take a look at two wars, The Thirty Years' War and The First World War. This is a comparative study regarding how men and women are portrayed in educational material in the Swedish school system, which ranges from 1934 to 2018

The questions I used in my study were; how has the different gender roles been portrayed throughout history and is there any change over time? How do common people get portrayed in the educational material belong to and is there any change over time? The results point towards men taking up a majority in the material that I have studied, but there seem to have been a change in time and that the change started to take place around 1980s, this also applies to the common people. In the material published in the 2000s you notice a change away from men and women in commanding positions such as kings, emperors and generals. My research has shown clear signs that both men and women from lower social classes takes up more room in the modern educational material used in the Swedish schools, and that gender roles has started to change.