But You Don’t Look Like A Scientist!: Women Scientists with Feminine Appearance are Deemed Less Likely to be Scientists

Sex Roles

Volumn 75, Issue 3-4, 2016, Pages 95-109

  Banchefsky, Sarah ^a   Westfall, Jacob ^b   Park, Bernadette ^a   Judd, Charles M ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF COLORADO   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS AT AUSTIN   (United States)

Author keywords

Face perception; Femininity; Gendered appearance; Physical appearance; Science; Sexism; STEM; Stereotypes

Indexed keywords

CHILD; CHILDHOOD; CONTROLLED CLINICAL TRIAL; DECISION MAKING; FEMALE; FEMININITY; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; HUMAN TISSUE; INTERNET; MALE; MODEL; RANDOMIZED CONTROLLED TRIAL; SCIENTIST; STATISTICAL MODEL; STIMULUS; UNIVERSITY;

EID: 84957577741     PISSN: 03600025     EISSN: 15732762     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s11199-016-0586-1     Document Type: Article

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