1. “She made a mean beef stroganoff”: Gendered portrayals of women in STEM in newspaper articles and their effects.
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Freedman, Gili, Moutoux, Isabella, Hermans, Isobel, and Green, Melanie C.
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WOMEN in science , *WOMEN in the press , *WOMEN Nobel Prize winners , *WOMEN in technology , *WOMEN in engineering , *GENDER stereotypes , *WOMEN in mathematics , *BRITISH newspapers - Abstract
Media articles about women in STEM often emphasize gender in ways that may reinforce stereotypes. In an archival study examining 172 articles from four major US and UK newspapers on women, Nobel laureates from 1903 to 2020, we find that over time, reporters are more likely to describe the scientist as a woman and less likely to mention her husband’s job. A follow-up experiment (N = 452) revealed no significant effects of an article that emphasizes the gender of a woman scientist on gender biases. These findings suggest that articles about women in STEM may emphasize gender rather than scientific accomplishments, but the ways in which they do so have changed over time and this emphasis may not affect readers’ gender bias. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]
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- 2024
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