| dc.description.abstract | This paper seeks to investigate gender representation in English Textbooks as a foreign
language, Forward an English for Vocational High School students in grade X in Indonesia. This
study is an investigation of an English Textbook published in 2020 with corpus linguistic tools
utilized to investigate the ratio of appearance of both women to men, the use of pattern gendermarked and gender-neutral, the adjectives associated with women and men, the title of address
for reference to women, and the order of mention of women and men. The findings showed an
attempt of the author to represent gender equality, including the equality of the appearance of
both women and men, the strategy to neutralize gender-marked to be gender-neutral, and using
the title address “Ms.” instead of “Mrs.” or “Miss” for the liberation of women. However, there
are still some imbalanced representations of gender that are attached to gender-marked nouns,
and male-firstness is still dominant with a ratio of 1:3. Furthermore, there is an emergent finding
in terms of occupation. It is shown that men tend to be portrayed as having settled, established,
highly paid, and prestigious jobs compared to women. In conclusion, gender has been represented
equally in this EFL textbook, even though there are still some imbalanced representations of gender. | en_US |
