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 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 ...

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 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.

Children in the U.S. are drawing scientists as women more than ever before. In an analysis of more than 20,000 children who participated in "Draw-A-Scientist" studies over the last five decades, ...

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 ...

When Miller first learned about the Draw-A-Scientist study several years ago, he wanted to know if children's stereotypes had changed since the 60s and 70s.