Professors publish paper on gender and racial bias in physics textbooks
Tuesday, August 18, 2020 - 09:00
in Psychology & Sociology
Penn State Brandywine faculty members Timothy Lawlor, associate professor of physics and astrophysics, and Timothy Niiler, associate teaching professor of physics, recently published a paper in The Physics Teacher titled "Physics Textbooks from 1960–2016: A History of Gender and Racial Bias," which describes how gender and racial biases are evident in images used in physics textbooks published over the last several decades.