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Renewal in the Muslim world, still leaves problems in gender relations. Not a few, some reforms have actually reduced the role of women only in the domestic sphere. This research looks at the model of reading gender discourse developing in Muhammadiyah, which is known as a reformed organization in Indonesia. This study uses discourse analysis to reconstruct the gender discourse that developed in Muhammadiyah in the form of decisions, policies and ijtihad methode used by this organization. From this study it was found that Muhammadiyah was very appreciative of gender equality rights. This is because Muhammadiyah has a progressive-critical reading, emphasizing ijtihad as a way to parse the problem, not leaving the problem to the results of past ulama ijtihad; not accepting the dalil daeef (weak proposition) to be practiced, which in general is considered to be very misogeneous; not stop at the textual domain, but the interconnection between text and context