Gender and Culture Analysis in EFL Textbooks as Measured by Personal Proper Names

Abstract

Many studies have been carried out on gender and culture bias. Many of them show that EFL textbooks are more or less biased towards genders and non-Western cultures. The present study tries to analyze gender and culture bias and the visibility thereof in a somewhat different approach by investigating and tallying the gender and cultural origin of personal proper nouns. Carrying out a corpus-like analysis of personal proper names, we found nearly 1500 of such names in 10 local and global EFL textbooks having almost 1200 pages overall. The findings show that females are less visible in these textbooks than males and that the global textbook series analyzed is not very global (only 5 % of the names were non-Western)

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