A timely trend in Draw-A-Scientist studies shows children in the US are now depicting more female scientists than ever before. Freelance writer Amanda C. Kooser covers gadgets and tech news with a ...
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 1977, ...
Between 1966 and 1977, the social scientist David Chambers asked 4,807 elementary-school children, mostly from Canada and the United States, to draw a scientist. Their illustrations regularly featured ...