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Imagine asking a classroom full of elementary school students to draw a scientist. Now try to guess how many of them would sketch a female or male scientist. In the decade that spanned 1966 to ...
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The most recent research, which spanned 1985-2016, saw children draw a picture of a female scientist about 28% of the time. But things regress slightly as children get older.
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In drawing tests, US children draw female scientists more today than in previous decades Peer-Reviewed Publication. Society for Research in Child Development ...
Why it’s harder for female presidential candidates to draw support August 15, 2019 Sen. Kamala D. Harris (D-Calif.), center, speaks with attendees during a health-care roundtable event in ...
A meta-analysis of "Draw-A-Scientist" studies shows that kids are becoming more likely to draw female scientists over time. Kids' gender stereotypes are slowly but surely changing, the study suggests ...
But while researchers have long moved on from that idea, scientists in a new issue of Cell published this week argue that our ideas about sex — and how to best measure it in research — remain ...
When drawing scientists, US children now depict female scientists more often than ever, according to new Northwestern University research, which analyzed five decades of 'Draw-A-Scientist' studies ...
All female-research teams also declined over the period, from 1.8% in 1991 to 1.1% in 2021. While the number of women participating in exercise studies rose over the years, they represented just ...
"Children are drawing more female scientists than ever before, but they’re still drawing more male scientists as they get older," says David Miller, the study's lead author and a Ph.D. candidate ...