AN ANALYSIS OF GENDER REPRESENTATION ON THE EFL TEXT BOOK GROW WITH ENGLISH GRADE THREE BY MUKARTO ET ALL, PUBLISHER BY ERLANGGA
Textbook is one of the materials in teaching learning process which is regularly used by both teachers and students at school. Textbook should be a representation of gender equality. Thus, this research was conducted to examine if both gender are represented equally in the EFL textbook Grow with Eenglish grade three. This research aims at answering the question “what are gender represented equally in the EFL textbook Grow with English grade three?”. To answer the research questions, document analysis method was applied to this research. Every page of the textbooks was analyzed to discover three aspects. They are visibility, occupation, and activity. After doing the analysis, it can be concluded that the gender did not represented equally. The number of female dominated in five chapter, while male were dominated in three chapter. Over all, the author of the textbook has tried to promote gender equity in the textbook. The textbook in this research still contain gender bias issues. Thus, it is expected to be revised in order to gender representation in the all of textbook will be represented equally.