Vrouwenbeelden en genderrepresentatiein een leergang Nederlands voor anderstaligen This article focuses on the representation of women and images of females as an articulation of diversity in textbooks of Dutch as a foreign language, Code Plus 1 and Code Plus 2. The central re­search questions are: How are female characters, next to male characters, represented in the selected textbooks? Do the textbooks present gender stereotypes or do they rather question them? ; Vrouwenbeelden en genderrepresentatiein een leergang Nederlands voor anderstaligen This article focuses on the representation of women and images of females as an articulation of diversity in textbooks of Dutch as a foreign language, Code Plus 1 and Code Plus 2. The central re­search questions are: How are female characters, next to male characters, represented in the selected textbooks? Do the textbooks present gender stereotypes or do they rather question them? ; Vrouwenbeelden en genderrepresentatiein een leergang Nederlands voor anderstaligen This article focuses on the representation of women and images of females as an articulation of diversity in textbooks of Dutch as a foreign language, Code Plus 1 and Code Plus 2. The central re­search questions are: How are female characters, next to male characters, represented in the selected textbooks? Do the textbooks present gender stereotypes or do they rather question them?