Gender Stereotypes and Education: A Multi-Country Content Analysis Study of Secondary School Textbooks - eScholarship

Gender Stereotypes and Education: A Multi-Country Content Analysis Study of Secondary School Textbooks Kazi Md Mukitul Islam University of Malaya M Niaz Asadullah University of Malaya Abstract: School education, which is widely assumed to eliminate gender gap in the society, can also reinforce and reproduce gender inequality through hidden curriculum. However, gender stereotype in school textbooks remains a largely overlooked issue in the ongoing global debate on the elimination of wider socioeconomic gender gap through improved educational access. This dissertation therefore uses textbooks of public secondary schools of four Muslim countries -- Malaysia, Indonesia, Pakistan and Bangladesh- with the primary objective of critically reviewing textbook content with a focus on gender stereotypes. This is a descriptive cross-country research using quantitative…