ESP Textbook Analysis on Gender Representation

The aims of the study to describe and measure about gender equality representation male and female in a textbook through the monolog texts and pictures in the textbook. The researcher used descriptive quantitative data analysis by elaborating both content or document analysis as a research design. Using the sample of textbook designed for university students of Art program learning English entitled “English for Fine Art Students, this study is conducted by evaluating language items and illustrations dimensions; there are five criteria which are examined in order to find gender equality. There are: 1) the male and female characters, 2) occupational “social roles”, 3) amount of talk, 4) male and female in domestic roles, and 5) firstness based on ten theories of experts. Sample: English textbook containing an array of topics on art. Each of the unit caters in it the skills of reading, speaking and writing. Exercises on vocabulary are also presented in every chapter and are incorporated in reading section. The results show that gender representation in English textbook for Art Program students is inequal in two dimensions. This can be derived from the data about gender representation in terms of language items in monolog texts are 92 male and 33 female as the difference 48% and illustration in pictures are 11 male and 7 female as the difference 22%. In the overall number of the total with percentage of those two criteria dimensions are 103 or 72% for male and 40 or 28% for female.