Abstract
This study aims at finding how English textbook published by the Ministry of Education and Culture of Indonesia for Grade X of senior high school represents gender. It is a descriptive work using content analysis as its design in looking at how gender is represented in the book both quantitatively and qualitatively.The findings showed that the text book is generally gender friendly in which it represents women and men in mostly equal manner. However, it is still not free from stereotyping attached to its female and male characters. Furthermore, the differences in verbosity, the use of question form and intensifiers by female and male characters are identified.
 Key words: gender representation, English textbook, Grade X
Highlights
Since the second awakening of feminism in the 1970s, gender has become a major and popular issue brought under scrutiny in various branches of academic social studies (Storey, 2009)
And Discussion This section elaborates the gender representations in the English textbook designed for the tenth graders of Indonesian high school students entitled Bahasa Inggris
This section is divided into three subsections: gender representation in illustration, gender representation in texts, and the use of language by female and male characters
Summary
Since the second awakening of feminism in the 1970s, gender has become a major and popular issue brought under scrutiny in various branches of academic social studies (Storey, 2009). Best elaborated that earlier studies on language and gender concluded that men and women use different sets of adjectives to describe their characters. These patterns turn into gender stereotyping which refers to the beliefs of several people that men and women use distinct speech patterns, express their ideas in certain ways, and are described with different words or phrases highlighting their sex differences. To avoid controversy, a textbook writer decided to describe men and women in their stereotyped characters and attributes that are commonly perceived or believed by most people in relation to both sexes
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