Abstract
The purpose of this paper is to examine how gender role assignment is embedded in newspaper reports. This paper analyzes seven newspaper articles (1988) published during the period of the Agnes Chan Controversy, a controversy strongly related to women's dilemma between career and childcare. This paper describes coverage of the Agnes Chan Controversy as reported on newspapers. Critical Discourse Analysis introduced by van Dijk is employed as the research method. This analysis shows that the newspaper articles enthusiastically contributed to the process of defining the dilemma of having a career and having children as one solely related to women. A tendency can be observed whereby newspapers only dealt with women's movements that accepted conventional gender role assignment while ignoring the assertions of those women who repudiated such assignment.
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