POSITIVE PARENTING: Drawing Girl Power in the Sciences

From women inventors in Marvel’s Black Panther to female scientists in kids’ magazines, the way media portrays scientists has been steadily changing. The change is a good thing says psychologist David Miller, PhD, with American Institutes for Research. Miller wanted to know if gender stereotypes about scientists had changed over the past five decades. Miller and his colleagues looked at 78 studies that asked American kids in kindergarten through high school to draw a scientist.

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