The article suggests that it behoves gender historians to engage in intra- and interdisciplinary gender research discussions in order to address the questions of time, temporality, and the value of a historical perspective in understanding societal and gender-creating processes. Metadiscussions about the discipline of history as a whole, and gender history as a particular sub-discipline, tend to hover between criticism of one's own subject's theoretical shortcomings and the remainder of the research community's lack of historical interest. I would argue that gender historians instead ought to formulate themselves actively and theoretically about what the historical perspective can offer, so that the interdisciplinary exchange on gender research can become the mutual exchange of views that was first anticipated.