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A Study on Gender Bias Against Females in High School English Textbooks Published by Foreign Language Teaching and Research Press

Based on the Comparison of the 2004 Version and the 2019 Version of the Textbook

Authors
Zhijie Long1, *
1School of Foreign Language, Southwest University, Chongqing, 400715, China
*Corresponding author. Email: Lemonjie0312@outlook.com
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Zhijie Long
Available Online 30 December 2022.
DOI
10.2991/978-2-494069-89-3_293How to use a DOI?
Keywords
FLTRP; high school English textbooks; female gender bias; gender awareness
Abstract

As an important source of teaching content, gender bias in textbooks has a very important influence on students' establishment of correct gender attitudes. This paper takes the 2004 version and the 2019 version of the high school English textbooks published by the Foreign Language Teaching and Research Press as the research objects and makes a comparative study of the two versions of the textbooks from the content and language levels. The literature method and text analysis method are used to analyze the frequency of male and female characters in the textbook, the nature of male and female characters and the differences in the language used to describe male and female characters. It is found that there are still gender biases against females in the latest 2019 version of the textbooks, which is contrary to the concept of gender equality education. This issue needs to attract the attention of all sectors of society, especially the textbook editing and reviewing departments, and truly incorporate gender equality awareness into the compilation of textbooks.

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Volume Title
Proceedings of the 2022 5th International Conference on Humanities Education and Social Sciences (ICHESS 2022)
Series
Advances in Social Science, Education and Humanities Research
Publication Date
30 December 2022
ISBN
978-2-494069-89-3
ISSN
2352-5398
DOI
10.2991/978-2-494069-89-3_293How to use a DOI?
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© 2022 The Author(s)
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