“…Considering the teaching of gender roles and family issues in the social studies course, it can be said that it is important to first understand the perceptions of pre-service teachers on these important issues. When the literature is examined, it is understood that the studies focus on the gender perceptions and attitudes of pre-service teachers in the field of social studies education (Colley, 2017;Engebretson, 2013Engebretson, , 2016Engebretson, , 2021Keleşoğlu & Esen, 2020;Körükçü et al, 2020;Kurtdaş & Tuncer, 2020;Martell & Stevens, 2018;Stevens & Martell, 2021;Ünal et al, 2017;Woodson et al, 2020) employing quantitative methods. It can therefore be stated that the number of qualitative studies is limited.…”