Give a child, any age, a piece of paper and a pencil or crayon. Ask them to draw a scientist.

Chances are very likely that what returns on that paper is a rendering of a white male in a lab coat, wearing glasses.

Lisa Eytel, a graduate student in organic chemistry, has conducted that experiment over and over as the outreach coordinator of Women in Graduate Science (WGS) at UO. Countless times, she's seen the same results. The stereotype has persisted for generations, decades, as far back as history cares to go.