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Direct linkMegan Fulcher; Kingsley Schroeder; Jennifer Rabung – Journal for STEM Education Research, 2024
This study was designed to test how well a commercial intervention with a highly feminized role model (Barbie) worked to improve pre-adolescent girls' interest and performance in computer science. Concurrently, this study examined how overtly feminist texts and images of real women would impact girls compared to the traditional highly feminized…
Descriptors: Role Models, Toys, Early Adolescents, Females
