2026-09-09 11:03 UTC
@vicgrinberg@mastodon.social Additional alt text (1 out of 3):
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""Draw a scientist"
At age 5-8, a majority of children draw a female scientist about as often as a male one. By age 16, only about 1 in 4 do".
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"Unequal attention in the classroom
Teachers give differential, often
unconscious, attention to boys and girls in STEM subjects, reinforcing who is expected to "belong" in science"
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@ml@ecoevo.social 2026-09-09 11:04
@vicgrinberg@mastodon.social 2 out of 3 Text underneath boxes: "Both mechanisms converge on the same result: girls learn to doubt their own ability, even when their grades say otherwise. It's the same pattern later known as impostor syndrome"" Sources: Chambers 1983: Miller et al. 2018, Child Development 89(6). 1943-1955; Leaper & Brown 2014, Sexism in Schools," In Advances in Child Development and Behavior Vol. 47: Beilock, Gunderson, Ramirez & Levine 2010.