“…In this case, the female characters in the textbook were depicted as being dependent and emotional (Blangsinga et al, 2021;Damayanti, 2014b;Ellemers, 2018;Suwastini et al, 2020). The compartmentalization of how women speak is also inseparable from the linguistic method used by both genders, namely male-competitive and female-constructive/cooperative which results in men having masculine characteristics such as being rational, bold, ambiguous, controlling, active, and independent, whereas women have the opposite features, including being indirect, weak, submissive, passive, expressive, kind, and dependent (Ariyanto, 2018;Blangsinga et al, 2021;Julianti et al, 2019;Mihira, 2022;Paudel & Khadka, 2019;Wiraningsih, 2021).…”