What a scientist looks like: Portraying gender in the scientific media
How men and women are portrayed in the media informs societal attitudes towards gender. Although this is true for all media, the scientific media has received little scrutiny, despite known gender biases inherent in scientific culture. We asked whether the top scientific journals, Nature and Science...
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doaj-a934bd0a19a54b5ba529c51eb782db0a2020-11-25T00:02:43ZengCanadian Science PublishingFACETS2371-16712371-16712018-07-01375476310.1139/facets-2017-0110What a scientist looks like: Portraying gender in the scientific mediaBecky Loverock0Miranda M. Hart1Department of Biology, University of British Columbia Okanagan, Kelowna, BC V1V 1V7, Canada.Department of Biology, University of British Columbia Okanagan, Kelowna, BC V1V 1V7, Canada.How men and women are portrayed in the media informs societal attitudes towards gender. Although this is true for all media, the scientific media has received little scrutiny, despite known gender biases inherent in scientific culture. We asked whether the top scientific journals, Nature and Science, represented men and women equally as authors, subjects, and objects in photographs. Overwhelmingly, women were underrepresented in these magazines, an effect that was apparent even in advertisements and stock photographs. Clearly, gender bias in science exists at many levels.http://www.facetsjournal.com/doi/full/10.1139%2Ffacets-2017-0110gender biasmediascience magazinesstereotypes |
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How men and women are portrayed in the media informs societal attitudes towards gender. Although this is true for all media, the scientific media has received little scrutiny, despite known gender biases inherent in scientific culture. We asked whether the top scientific journals, Nature and Science, represented men and women equally as authors, subjects, and objects in photographs. Overwhelmingly, women were underrepresented in these magazines, an effect that was apparent even in advertisements and stock photographs. Clearly, gender bias in science exists at many levels. |
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