Last week was a holiday week with fewer days of school for my kids, so I decided to do a little experiment with them and the other kids on our street who were willing to participate. What I asked them ...

Julie Gould describes what happened after showing 50 images of working scientists to a bunch of 12–13 year-olds. Draw a Scientist is a test developed in 1983 to explore children’s perspectives of ...

If you had asked a young child 50 years ago to draw a picture of a scientist, about 99% of the drawings would be of men. If you had asked a young child 50 years ago to draw a picture of a scientist, ...

I was a science teacher for 34 years. On the first day of school every year, I began every class by asking my students to draw a picture of a scientist doing “something that a scientist does.” I did ...

Curriculum developers have made more of an effort in recent years to broaden their depictions of scientists, hoping to more accurately represent the scientific workforce. But does simply seeing a ...