This research aimed to find out the influence of gender on students’ reading comprehension skill in understanding descriptive text material that conducted in junior high school. The background of this research was the inequality of achievement between male and female students in English. This research used quantitative approach with ex post facto design. The population of this research was all 8th grade students of junior high school in the academic year 2023/2024. And the sample of this research was 30 students of 8 grade of junior high school. The instrument of this research was reading comprehension test. The test was to measure and find out students’ understanding when reading descriptive text. Firstly, to be able to carry out the T-test it is necessary to carry out normality and homogeneity tests for the test requirements. From the normality and homogeneity tests that have been carried out, it is proven that the data group used is normally distributed and homogeneous. After the data is declared normally distributed and homogeneous, then the hypothesis is tested using the T-test. From the data analysis, it showed the results that the level significance of T-test and from the average score from reading comprehension test of male and female students shows that female students are superior than male students. It could be concluded that there was a significant effect of gender on students’ reading comprehension skill in understanding descriptive text.