2001 Volume 44 Issue 3 Pages 272-280
The contents of Home Economics textbooks for senior high school were investigated to analyze how they affect students, and how they form their sense of gender. The descriptions, illustrations and pictures were surveyed in the area of early childhood education and care. The method of the survey was to classify gender biases from the following points of view : 1. Expressions of gender in the descriptions ; 2. The colors, designs, figures, behavior and sex roll allotment used for gender expression in the illustrations and pictures. The results were as follows : 1. 80% of words used applied to both genders. There were 29 expression with gender was and 38 gender free expressions. 2. Also the tendency to use gender free expressions was also seen in illustrations and pictures. 3. The point above suggest that teachers instructions are required for teacher to reduce the gender biases of their students'textbooks and to be more sensitive to gender.
