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 ...

A landmark study that began in the 1960s looked at how children depicted scientists when they were asked to draw one. Only 28 of nearly 5,000 drawings showed a woman.

Kids Draw Women Scientists More Than Ever, but Stereotypes Still Catch up With Them in Grade School. Published Mar 20, 2018 at 7:09 AM EDT Updated Mar 20, 2018 at 7:09 AM EDT.

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 ...

Ask a child to draw a scientist, and she’s more likely than ever to draw a woman. That’s according to a new study in Child Development. Researchers analyzed 78 “draw-a-scientist” studies dating back ...

For decades, researchers have turned to children's drawings to gain insight as to how society views scientists. The trend started in the late 1960s and 1970s, with social scientist David Wade ...

Between 1966 and 1977, a group of researchers gave more than 5,000 schoolchildren a simple instruction: Draw a scientist. The kids drew scientists of all kinds: some with white coats, some peering ...