The Draw a Scientist Test 🎨was first conducted in 1983 in order to study when children learn about stereotypes about scientists. In the original study of nearly 5,000 kids - only 28 of the girls and no boys drew female scientists. That's about 0.5% of all the drawings.  Over the years, this study has been repeated 80+ times with over 20,000 students. Gradually, that percentage got better, but it was mostly driven by girls starting to draw female scientists.   Only 1.2% of girls drew scientists as female in the original 1983 study. That rose to 58 percent by 2016. But boys still draw male scientists 9 times out of 10.  minnesota.rain sent me this picture on Twitter. Their son, Gavin, was asked to draw a scientist. And this is what he drew. (Please note the inclusion of the bump 🤰🏻!) This...makes me feel lots of feelings. 🥰 We hear it so often that it starts to lose meaning - but representation matters. It's incredibly powerful and it changes the way we think.  Here's hoping ...