GENDER EQUALITY IN BAHASA INGGRIS TEXTBOOK PUBLISHED BY PT PENERBIT INTAN PARIWARA

Abstract

Gender equality is the view that all people both men and women, should receive equal treatment and there should be no discrimination based on their gender. In education, gender equality occurs as an inequality that often favors men as form or symbol of strength while women are weak. Whether we realize or not, teaching materials often includes gender inequality. This can be seen both in reading texts, pictures, or stories that are presented as teaching materials. Like in the Bahasa Inggris textbook from PT Penerbit Intan Pariwara published in 2020, there are many sentences that reflect gender inequality in the Narrative Text material. This study will discuss about gender inequality that contain in Narrative Text from Bahasa Inggris textbooks X grade published by PT Penerbit Intan Pariwara. The method used is descriptive qualitative.  The purposes of this method are to describe, explain, clarify and to answer the problem more detail by studying as much as possible a phenomena or an event. In this study, it produces data that there is gender inequality appears in the Narrative Text from this textbook which is always detrimental to women. So, gender equality needs to be taught to students so that there are no differences between men and women.