“…The textbook's authors generally present several cues and norms to distinguish male and female characters based on the textbook's origin, religions, cultures, or society (Lee & Mahmoudi-Gahrouei, 2020). There are typical gender cues or norms used for females' appearances or attributes, such as long hair, wearing skirts, and most related to pink color (Ainamo, 2021;Bideaux, 2019) or for Muslim females with their long sleeves, headscarves, and ankle-length skirts (Saidun et al, 2021). Meanwhile, males used to have shorter hair, wear trousers or pants, and blue.…”