Abstract

This study uses Hartman and Judd's (1978) framework to investigate the occupational and stereotypical roles assigned to women and men in two volumes of English textbooks belonging to Iranian high schools. Although some decades have passed since the first investigation of sexism in textbooks, gender-bias still exists. The results of this study demonstrated that the manifestation of women and men regarding occupational roles in the textbooks was unfair. In other words, women were depicted in more stereotypical occupations than men and the men's occupations were more diverse than the women's.