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Kids More Likely To Imagine Women As Scientists Than They Were 50 Years Ago
When researchers took a look at more than 5,000 children's drawings from the 1960s and 1970s, they found only 28 drawings showed women as scientists. Find out what Northwestern University researchers recently learned when they examined drawings made between 1985 and 2016 about how children's images of scientists have evolved.» Link to the original article
