Ask a group of young children to draw a scientist and many will still draw the same familiar image. A lab coat. Wild hair. Test tubes and explosions. Often a man.Decades of research using draw-a-scientist tasks show that, while children’s views of science are slowly broadening, stereotypes remain stubbornly persistent, particularly in the primary years.
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