@article{article_1272156, title={A STUDY OF GENDER REPRESENTATION INEQUALITY IN THE COURSEBOOK HEADWAY FIRST EDITION AND FOURTH EDITION: A COMPARATIVE STUDY}, journal={World Language Studies}, volume={3}, pages={150–175}, year={2023}, author={Gündüz, Nazli and Kökcü, Hayrettin}, keywords={Gender Inequality, Gender Representation, Gender Bias, Course book Analysis, Headway.}, abstract={Gender inequality has always been a crucial issue to be dealt with carefully and today it is still discussed in many fields. One of these fields is education. The discussions on fair representations of genders mostly focus on the course books used in schools, which are of high importance to learners in that they are exposed to the content of these books not only in classes but also in their homes. For this reason, this specific study attempts to investigate gender representations in a commonly used course book: Headway. This is a comparative study in as much as it examines the first edition of pre-intermediate level Headway and the fourth edition of pre-intermediate New Headway, both of which were written by exactly the same authors. In addition to the investigation of any existence of gender-biased representation, the study aims to find out the extension of the changes in the passing 30 years by concentrating on six categories: the existence of female and male characters in textbooks, the roles of family members, occupational distribution of genders, the distribution of household tasks, the types of leisure activities for each gender and the distribution of famous characters for each gender. The data gathered have been analyzed quantitatively and qualitatively. Also, the content analysis approach has been used to carry out the investigation. As a result of this study, it has been found that the first edition of Headway contained many inequalities in the representations of genders. On the other hand, the fourth edition and revised edition of New Headway included remarkably balanced attitudes to genders in terms of visibility and family roles. Related to leisure activities, women are much freer in their choice of free-time activities but men have much fewer free-time activity choices. The rest of the categories still reflect some kind of inequality in that women do most of the household activities, men have far more occupational variety and more famous male characters are mentioned in this edition. This study is of high significance in that it provides the opportunity to raise awareness of gender representation inequality among students, teachers, authors, and other shareholders and to give an idea for other research studies in this field.}, number={2}, publisher={Social Sciences University of Ankara}