Children’s books are adding to science’s gender problem

Ask young children what they want to be when they grow up and the chances are that scientific jobs such as astronaut and doctor will appear high on the list. But ask them to draw a scientist and they are more than twice as likely to draw a man than a woman. Children can form these kinds of biases from many sources. But perhaps we shouldn’t be too surprised to see such an absence of women scientists in children’s drawings when the illustrations we show them are often just as bad. Our study of imagery in children’s science books reveals…

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https://ift.tt/2owZ74D The Conversation September 02, 2018 at 06:00AM