{"id":3005,"date":"2013-09-03T12:07:41","date_gmt":"2013-09-03T17:07:41","guid":{"rendered":"On this past Sunday, LEGO released a significant new minifig: the\u00a0first female lab scientist made by the toy company. Maia Weinstock writes about the significance of the new figurine in <a href=\"http:\/\/blogs.scientificamerican.com\/guest-blog\/2013\/09\/02\/br"},"modified":"2013-09-03T12:07:41","modified_gmt":"2013-09-03T17:07:41","slug":"lego-and-science-stereotypes","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.acu.edu\/cornerstonef13\/2013\/09\/03\/lego-and-science-stereotypes\/","title":{"rendered":"LEGO and Science-Stereotypes"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>On this past Sunday, LEGO released a significant new minifig: the\u00a0first female lab scientist made by the toy company. Maia Weinstock writes about the significance of the new figurine in <a href=\"http:\/\/blogs.scientificamerican.com\/guest-blog\/2013\/09\/02\/breaking-brick-stereotypes-lego-unveils-a-female-scientist\/\" target=\"_blank\">a post on the Scientific American blog<\/a>, and the release prompts us to reflect on some important questions.<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><span style=\"line-height: 13px\">What gender-stereotypes affect the way we think about scientists?\u00a0<\/span><\/li>\n<li>Where do these stereotypes come from?<\/li>\n<li>How have toys, movies, and TV shows reflected, perpetuated, and challenged these stereotypes?<\/li>\n<li>Have these stereotypes shaped the possible career paths that you imagine for yourself?<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center\"><a href=\"http:\/\/blogs.scientificamerican.com\/guest-blog\/2013\/09\/02\/breaking-brick-stereotypes-lego-unveils-a-female-scientist\/\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-3006\" src=\"http:\/\/blogs.acu.edu\/cornerstonef13\/files\/2013\/09\/scientist-minifig-sm.jpg\" alt=\"scientist-minifig-sm\" width=\"448\" height=\"336\" srcset=\"https:\/\/blogs.acu.edu\/cornerstonef13\/files\/2013\/09\/scientist-minifig-sm.jpg 448w, https:\/\/blogs.acu.edu\/cornerstonef13\/files\/2013\/09\/scientist-minifig-sm-300x224.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 448px) 100vw, 448px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>On this past Sunday, LEGO released a significant new minifig: the\u00a0first female lab scientist made by the toy company. Maia Weinstock writes about the significance of the new figurine in a post on the Scientific American blog, and the release prompts us to reflect on some important questions. What gender-stereotypes affect the way we think [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":8023,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[1934],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3005","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-faculty-post"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p3T2tB-Mt","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.acu.edu\/cornerstonef13\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3005","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.acu.edu\/cornerstonef13\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.acu.edu\/cornerstonef13\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.acu.edu\/cornerstonef13\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/8023"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.acu.edu\/cornerstonef13\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3005"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.acu.edu\/cornerstonef13\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3005\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3009,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.acu.edu\/cornerstonef13\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3005\/revisions\/3009"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.acu.edu\/cornerstonef13\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3005"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.acu.edu\/cornerstonef13\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3005"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.acu.edu\/cornerstonef13\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3005"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}