Girls and boys, men and women have rights on quality education without discrimination, which isn't colored with gender stereotypes. Gender equality in education refers on different needs of girls and boys and insures their participation and success in learning enviroment. Education and culture are continuing to transfer stereotypes because women and men often follow old paths of education in which women are situated in proffesions that are less appriciated and honoured. Primary goal of gender equality policy in education is to overthrow tradicional gender roles and stereotypes. Dramatical changes in tradicional roles of men and women represent new challenges for youth education. Numerous researches point out the importance of encouranging students in school practice not based on their gender because theacher's prejudice affect their educational results and achieving communication. Studying gender equality in education is important because detecting already based stereotypes affects their elimination and changing negative behaviour patterns. Withouth aiming towards positive changes, improvement can't be achived, not depending on gender conscious politics which are positive created, but aren't successfully applied in practice. In thesis, the term gender equality in education is researched, just like the term of gender conscious policy, and stereotypes which appears in school practice are described. Besides that, in thesis is shown analysis of two textbooks of croatian language and literature, to enquire into the textbook's gender sensibility and recommendations for improving gender sensibility of education material is listed.