Finally, the data were categorized into the units which were relevant with A kinds of gender discrimination which were faced by the women in A Thousand
Splendid Suns and B the attitudes of women towards the discrimination. The researcher wrote the categorized data in a table of data collection and
classification. The researcher marked some sentences bold which support and emphasize the categories she made to ease the analyzing process.
Table 3. Kinds of Gender Discrimination No. Category
Sub- Category
Quotation Page
Chapter
1 .
Violence Sexual
Violence Nana had been one of the
housekeepers. Until her belly began to swell.
Nana
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Table 3.
Women’s Attitudes towards Gender Discrimination No. Category
Sub- Category
Quotation Page
Chapter
1. Influencing
factors Becoming the
object of patriarchal
society Whats the sense schooling
a girl like you? Its like shining a spittoon.
And youll learn nothing of value
in those schools. There is only one, only one skill a
woman like you and me needs in life, and they dont
teach it in school. 183
E. The Technique of Data Analysis
Hoonard and Hoonard 2008:186 mention that data analysis is an integral part of qualitative research and constitutes an essential stepping-stone towards
both gathering data and linking one‟s findings with higher order concepts. According to Creswell 2009: 185, data analysis in qualitative research involves
six steps namely organizing and preparing the data, reading the whole data, coding the data, sorting the data, interrelating description, and interpreting the
meaning of description. Below is the description of those six steps. 1.
First, the researcher identified the data which were taken from the novel by making some notes.
2. Second, the researcher read and re-read the whole data and arranging them
into two major topics under the study. The first analysis was gender discrimination and the second analysis was the attitudes of women towards
the discrimination. 3.
Third, the researcher categorized the data into thematic categories related to gender discrimination and the attitudes of women towards the discrimination.
4. Fourth, the researcher sorted the data to get the more relevant data. Thus, the
irrelevant data were excluded. 5.
Fifth, the data analysis process moved towards the process of making interrelation between the description of the data and the theories to get
findings based on the objectives of the research: to reveal what kinds of gender discrimination and women‟s attitudes towards it in Hosseini‟s A
Thousand Splendid Suns. 6.
Sixth, the researcher engaged in making interpretation of the findings based on her comprehension about the theories which were used.
