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US kids’ doodles of scientists reveal changing gender stereotypes

Experiments that ask children to draw a researcher show a greater proportion of women in sketches over time.
  1. Giorgia Guglielmi
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When US children are asked to draw a scientist, today roughly one in three will doodle a woman. That’s a major shift since the 1960s and 1970s, when fewer than 1 in 100 kids would depict a female scientist, a new study finds. But although stereotypes that associate men with science seem to have weakened over time, most US children still see science as a male profession.

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doi: https://doi.org/10.1038/d41586-018-03346-7

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  1. Miller, D. I., Nolla, K. M., Eagly, A. H. & Uttal, D. H. Child Development https://doi.org/10.1111/cdev.13039 (2018).

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