“…Ghajarieh and Salami (2016), found that college level students and high-level jobs such as doctors, engineers, and so on, were assigned to male characters in the secondary, high school and pre-college English course books. Similarly, EFL coursebooks were found to reflect gender stereotypes regarding jobs in a later study (Teliousi, Zafiri & Pliogou, 2020). Emilia, Moecharam and Syifa (2017) analysed transitivity in English textbooks to investigate distribution of processes between male and female agents and found that material processes were the most common type of process found and these processes were predominantly assigned to male characters than female characters, 103 and 73 respectively.…”