common technology, however, it might be different according to the place and user‟s age. Most of the times, male characters engaged more to technology instead
of female. However, the reality does not show the same. Table 4.10 also presents that male characters had higher numbers upon
reading material, i.e. book and newspaper. It is similar to what occurs in ERC. It assumes that male tends to like actual and factual topic while female tends to like
drama, fictional, and linguistic things. However, an interesting result shows that male and female characters had
the same numbers upon toys and sport equipment categories. Toys category engaged both female and male characters with ball. Then, sport equipment
category engaged both characters with racket. Obviously, it reveals that the authors attempted to make both characters had the same opportunities to play or
do those things in balance. The last result in this book presents that cloth, household, accessories, and
head‟s cover appear balanced and unbalanced. As explained previously, it does not show that no gender stereotyping includes in those categories. As evidence,
cloth category entails apron to female characters. It means that female character mostly depicted in the kitchen to do domestic work. However, an attempt to break
gender stereotyping exists in EH. In this case, household category consists of broom
. This word appears in Book C and D. It is not just a coincidence.
4.1.5 Masculine Generic Construction
Masculine generic construction category presents the occurrences of the words which employ suffix
–man in depicting certain roles or occupation. Textual PLAGIAT MERUPAKAN TINDAKAN TIDAK TERPUJI
data are the only source for this category since the textual data is the only source that the author mentions explicitly hisher choices of words. The results showed
that masculine generic construction was only found in one textbook, namely Book A. The word policeman appeared for three times in this book. As the word
policeman came up in Book A, therefore ERC contains of masculine generic
construction. Meanwhile, EH does not represent any word considered as masculine generic construction.
4.1.6 Adjective
Adjective category presents the occurrences of adjective which appear in depicting female and male characters. Similar in masculine generic construction
category, this category only takes textual data as the main source since the adjectives in pictorial data are complicated to analyze. In addition, the adjective in
pictorial data is mostly regarding facial expression such as sad, happy, and etc. and physical traits such as tall, big, short. In this case, the illustrator is the one
who determines this kind of things. Table 4.11 illustrates the adjective appears in both female and male
characters.
Table 4.11: The Adjective for Both Female and Male Characters Title
Book Female
Male Adjective
Number Adjective
Number
ERC A
pointed 1
pointed 1
B -
- EH
C fun
2 fun
2 D
green 1
green 1
blue 1
blue 1
According to Table 4.11, adjective words engaged to both female and male characters in all textbooks, except Book B. It also showed that Book A, C, and D
distributed the same numbers of adjectives for both female and male characters. As seen in Table 4.11, ERC depicted both female and male characters had the
same physical appearances related to nose, which is pointed. It is similar to what occurred in Book C and D. Both characters had the same occasion to show fun. In
addition, both characters expressed the same colors, green and blue. However, some adjectives still engaged to certain characters as depicted in the Table 4.12.
Table 4.12: The Adjective for Female and Male Characters Title
Book Female-Only
Male-Only Adjective
Number Adjective
Number
ERC A
small 1
big 1
long 1
short 1
B hot
1 fine
1 not thirsty
2
EH C
bored 2
tired 1
good 2
D orange
1 black
1 pink
2 brown
1 purple
4 grey
1 red
1 white
1 yellow
2
Table 4.12 presented the adjectives appeared in each textbook. Book A contained of adjectives which depicted physical appearances of both characters.
Book A shows adjectives associated to size and measuremen t of characters‟ eyes
and hair. Regarding long – short for hair, it obviously sets that female
characterized with a long hair while male had a short hair. Meanwhile, Book B does not show any issue related to gender. Hot, not thirsty, and fine are still
considered as neutral adjectives. It can be concluded that, somehow, ERC entails stereotyped in adjective.
EH is represented in Book C and D. As seen in table 4.11, Book C contained of adjective words classified as feeling. It shows that female character
has more words to be expressed, such as bored and good. On the other hand, male characters had one expression of feeling. The last one, Book D, contained of
adjective words which categorized as colors. As seen in the table, female characters associated with orange, pink, purple, red, and yellow. Those colors
reveal that female characters had more colorful option regarding color. Moreover, they are considered as bright colors. Meanwhile, male characters were mostly
associated to dark colors, such as black, brown, and grey. Those colors were close in the color spectrum. Although there is white color, it is only mentioned once.
In conclusion, both ERC and EH still entail the stereotyping among female and male characters. Although the adjective words are not as many as the other
categories, those cases are able to represent the content of the books and author‟s
beliefs. Still, the occurrences depend on the topics discuss in each unit in each textbook.
4.1.7 Activities
