GENDER REPRESENTATION IN ENGLISH TEXTBOOK

This research was aimed at analyzing gender representation in Pathway to English, one of the English learning sources. One of the criteria of a good learning source is that it represents gender equity. To ensure that a textbook represents equity, a study to the whole content of the textbook is needed. Gender representation of Pathway to English is interested to be analyzed because it is nationally used as the main sources of ELT in Senior High School in Indonesia. Therefore this textbook becomes the media for promoting and educating gender equity. This is a qualitative research using content analysis. The data of this research were taken form the content of Pathway to English that represents gender relation. The data consisted of pictures and texts contained in the textbook and were analyzed by categorizing the content into visibility, occupations, games, firstness, domestic roles, and role models.The data of this research were gathered through document analysis. It was used to describe textual data in textbook. The result of this research showed gender representation in Pathway to English textbook. The data was showed as follows: a) the number of visibility form pictures were 24 for females and 38 for males; b) the number of occupations form pictures and texts in the textbook were 23 for females and 55 for males; c) the number of games or sports were 5 for females and 21 for males; the number of firstness form dialogues were 4 for females and 11 for males; the domestic roles were 14 for females and 5 for males; the role models form texts and pictures were 14 for females and 37 for males. According to the data, there are still gender stereotypes in textbook. Overall, the author of Pathway to English textbook has tried to promote and educate gender equity in textbook. Keywords: Textbook, Gender Representatio