Abstract:
In recent decades, discussion about discrimination and gender inequality against women has become a common discourse in the world, because women have always faced re-strictions caused by discrimination, gender inequality, and lack of equal access to op-portunities, facilities and sources of power. In Iran, we not only have not witnessed the will to eliminate this discrimination, but even the country's education system, planned in line with the system's basic goals, has added to these problems. Besides, textbooks as the main source of knowledge can influence children's attitudes towards gender roles and shape their attitudes and behavior in adulthood. In this regard, the question is how the content of textbooks, as the main source of formal education in Iran, affects the ac-ceptance of dominance relations and gender discrimination of women, from childhood to adulthood? And the hypothesis is that the content of textbooks, by teaching gender stereotypes and creating false consciousness, stabilizes the attitude of submission in fe-male students, and as a result, they accept dominance and gender discrimination until adulthood. The research method is a one-stage mixed qualitative based on the critical theory approach. To collect the data, available scientific sources such as quantitative or qualitative researches, and to analyze the findings while using a critical approach, a qua-litative analysis method has been used. Analysis of the research findings, while confirm-ing the hypothesis, shows that the content of textbooks, by establishing the submission attitude in female students, causes them to accept dominance relations and gender dis-crimination in their adulthood.