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 ...

In 1983, a social scientist named David Chambers published a landmark study on children's drawings. During the late 1960s and the 1970s, teachers asked nearly 5,000 children to draw a scientist.

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

When drawing scientists, US children now depict female scientists more often than ever, according to new research, which analyzed five decades of 'Draw-A-Scientist' studies conducted since the 1960s.

Humans have changed the Earth in such profound ways that scientists say we have entered a new geological period: the Anthropocene Epoch. But when did the new epoch officially begin? And how ...

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 ...

We’ve made progress, but it’s not enough: Even by 2016, only about one-third of children’s drawings showed female scientists. Our youngest girls start out believing in themselves: A powerful 70% of ...

"In addition, research over the decades using the Draw-A-Scientist-Test framework shows that students tend to draw scientists as white men wearing glasses and lab coats, and that this ...

Before the conversation, she wanted to gauge their perception of scientists and tasked them with an art project: draw a picture of a scientist. Every boy drew a male scientist, and most of the ...