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Film and television tell children who can be scientists

Roles on the screen largely reinforce the message that scientists are white men.
  1. Virginia Gewin

    1. Virginia Gewin is a freelance writer in Portland, Oregon.

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The portrayal of jobs in science, technology, engineering and mathematics (STEM) in US entertainment media offers mixed messages to girls and women. This is the conclusion of an analysis by the Geena Davis Institute on Gender in Media, a non-profit organization supported by Mount Saint Mary’s University in Los Angeles, California, and the Lyda Hill Foundation, a private science funder in Dallas, Texas.

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Nature 565, 126 (2019)

doi: https://doi.org/10.1038/d41586-018-07512-9

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