15 Works of Art Depicting Women in Science - Scientific American
WEBMar 7, 2014 · 15 Works of Art Depicting Women in Science. Visualizing notable women in the STEM fields through the lens of fine art. By Maia Weinstock. Culture. Research into why women continue to drop out...
What does a scientist look like? Children are drawing women …
WEBMar 19, 2018 · When asked to draw a scientist, school-age kids in the United States are increasingly sketching women. That's the main conclusion of a new study that compiled information about 20,860 pictures drawn by students age 5 to 18 over 5 decades.
Kids Are Drawing Women Scientists More Often ... - Smithsonian Magazine
WEBMar 20, 2018 · As documented in his landmark 1983 study, only 28 (all girls) of the thousands of children queried drew a woman. The rest of the drawings commonly depicted men wearing lab coats, glasses and ...
50 Years of the Draw-a-Scientist Test - Edutopia
WEBMay 22, 2019 · When boys and girls were asked to draw a scientist in a study several decades ago, the results revealed a stunning bias: 99.4 percent of the drawings depicted a male scientist. Out of 5,000 drawings collected between 1966 and 1977, only 28 were of female scientists, all of which were drawn by girls.
What We Learn From 50 Years of Kids Drawing Scientists
WEBMar 20, 2018 · Of the almost 5,000 drawings produced within the study, just 28 depicted a female scientist, and all of those were drawn by girls. Not a single boy drew a woman.
Women scientists: Kids 50 years ago never drew scientists as …
WEBMar 20, 2018 · If you had asked a young child 50 years ago to draw a picture of a scientist, about 99% of the drawings would be of men. A new study shows how much that’s changed.
Kids are starting to picture scientists as women - Science News
WEBMar 20, 2018 · A new analysis finds that more female scientists have appeared in kids’ drawings in recent decades — going from nearly nonexistent in the 1960s to about a third in 2016.
Kids' drawings show changing perceptions of who can be a scientist
WEBMar 21, 2018 · When schoolchildren were asked to draw a scientist in the 1960s and 1970s a researcher found that less than one percent depicted the scientist as a woman. A new analysis, led by David Miller of...
US kids’ doodles of scientists reveal changing gender ... - Nature
WEBMar 20, 2018 · Experiments that ask children to draw a scientist show a greater proportion of women in sketches over time.
Children drawing more women in science - BBC
WEBMar 20, 2018 · When asked to draw a scientist, less than one per cent of children in the 1960s and 1970s drew a woman. This rose to 28% between the 1980s and present day.