Update: What does a scientist look like? Kids are drawing women more than ever!
A new study (published March 20, 2018 here and written up in Science here) demonstrated that when asked to draw a scientist, in the past decade, around 34% of children drew pictures of female scientists. This is in stark contrast to the 1960s and 70s, when children drew women less than 1% of the time. This follows an increase in the number of women in science, as well--representation matters! Now let's work on increasing the number of drawings that depict scientists as racial