The article reviews some of the latest research reports and books on the First World War in the German Empire and Austria-Hungary, asking which significance is assigned to women's and gender history. The topics of recent scholarship mirror the trends that can be observed and that are mentioned in the latest research reports: the growing interest in transnational and global perspectives and the continuous writing of national histories at the same time. Other studies deal with regional and local impacts of the war and increasingly use autobiographical texts as sources.