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This study aims to analysis the illustrations on physical education textbook for 3rd to 6th grade students on the 7th Educational curriculum and to present the consistent extend between illustrations and gender equality. This study is based on two standards - rarity and fixed gender roles among six standards of Sadker, Sadker and Long(1997) to estimate teaching-learning materials in the aspect of gender equality. As for the aspect of rarity, illustrations on physical education textbooks were classified into different sections(illustrations on 3th and 4th grades' textbooks into gymnastics, games, expression, and health; illustrations on 5th and 6th grades' textbooks into gymnastics, athletics, games, expression, health, and physical fitness) to understand how role models for each sexes are distributed. Then, the number of boys and girls in the illustrations on each section was counted to prepare a checklist and derive frequency and percentage. As for the aspect of fixed gender roles, the meaning of actions each character on the illustration was analyzed to examine whether characters show actions that reflect fixed ideas of femininity or masculinity and to evaluate the actions' suitability for gender equality. Analysis showed that the behavioral characteristics of the male and female role model appeared on illustrations of the physical education textbooks mostly reflected the perspective of equal education between both sexes. As a result of the study, there are some suggestions about new textbook. First, the illustrations on physical education textbook should reflect that they are in progress to gender equality. Also, for inspiring truly gender equality consciousness, students and teachers have to try changing their consciousness.