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[Virginia Valian]

Dear Anna,

I'd like to start by reiterating that I think this year's speakers will be
excellent!  I look forward to hearing them on 31 October.

I appreciate seeing the whole list of SLD symposium speakers.  It's good to
see that the history has a better proportion of women overall than this
year alone would suggest.  Note, though, that language acquisition is a
primarily female field.  If all other things are equal - and they may not
be - we would expect to see primarily female speakers over the long haul.
 That is, in the case of language acquisition, we don't expect 50-50 but
many more women, just as, in fields that are male-dominated, we don't
expect 50-50, but many more men.

Who receives public attention affects not only the particular women whose
voices aren't heard, but all students and researchers in the field.
People's aspirations, interests, and expectations are affected by who they
see in prestigious positions.

As the links I provided earlier spell out in more detail - and see my
gender tutorial 4, www.hunter.cuny.edu/gendertutorial/slides/gt04.htm - the
social-cognitive analysis that I provide shows why everyone - male and
female alike, and that includes me - is likely to find men's names to be
more cognitively available than women's.  We all have gender schemas and we
all use cognitive heuristics.

Sincerely,

VVV

Virginia Valian

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