Abstract
Previous research has revealed that there is a bias towards males in the real person and raw content appearing in 19 Japanese upper-intermediate comprehensive textbooks. To investigate this further, we looked at the occupations of the real-life characters in 16 books. The results showed that nearly 30% of the female real person were housewives or had unspecified or mundane occupations indicating that women may have been pushed into the "private sphere" in their occupations. As for academics, the overwhelming majority were men, predominantly Westerners, and there was a tendency towards "Western supremacy".
