More kids draw scientists as women than ever before
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Emma Stoye2018-03-20T12:08:00
Children’s ideas of who can be a scientist appear to have tracked societal changes over the last 50 years
‘Draw-a-scientist’ studies have offered an insight into what children view as the stereotypical image of a scientist for decades. When discussing issues of gender in science, you’ve probably heard how most children will come up with a lab-coated, bespectacled man, and hardly ever a woman.
This was certainly the case in the 1960s, but a meta-analysis of studies conducted over the years has shown the situation may be changing.