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[rose maier]

Dear Isabelle,
The NSF tracks information about the participation of women, minorities,
and people with disabilities in STEM fields, and makes the most current
data publicly available here:
http://www.nsf.gov/statistics/wmpd/2013/tables.cfm
These tables include information on women's enrollment in undergraduate and
graduate programs, as well as degrees awarded at various levels (BS/BA
through PhD) and attainment of career milestones. If you select the tables
organized by field and then by gender, you should be able to get the
information you're looking for about Linguistics.
Cheers,
Rose Maier

Rose Maier
Doctoral Student
Department of Psychology
University of Oregon
Office: Straub 493


On Mon, Aug 19, 2013 at 4:48 PM, Isa Barriere <barriere.isa at gmail.com>wrote:

> Dear Virginia, Ana and Ginny,
> 1. Does anyone know here I can find demographic information (including
> gender. ethnic etc break down) for a) undergraduate and graduate students
> in Linguistics programs an b) faculty Linguistics in the US?
>
> 2.  A comment related to Tom's
> Back in late 90's when I joined a reading group on language acquisition in
> London, it was interesting to note the male female divide: all the males'
> research focused on computational models of lg acquisition while all the
> females were conducting studies that involved data collection on real
> children but I feel (maybe wrongly) that this trend may be changing and of
> course some people do both ...
>
> Cheers,
> Isabelle
>
>
> On Sun, Aug 18, 2013 at 3:37 PM, Tom Roeper <roeper at linguist.umass.edu>wrote:
>
>> Dear Ana and Ginny--
>>
>> There is another important dimension to all of this.  It is a concern of
>> mine that the relevance
>> of language acquistion to linguistic theory be fully appeciated and
>> grasped.  How often does
>> one read in a theoretical paper that a phenomenon is found in language
>> family X, Y, Z and
>> in child grammar?  Extremely rarely, but in many respects spontaneous
>> acquisition behavior
>> for instance copying (can I can come) should be seen as much more
>> persuasive than very
>> indirect theoretical arguments for say, copying.  Yet in general, simple
>> confirmation of
>> ideas through acquisition references is sorely lacking.
>>     This is also a reflection of the fact that language acquisition has a
>> large number of women
>> in it I suspect, and gender bias is playing a role.   This is not
>> entirely without overt evidence---
>> but I remember a male colleague saying---many many years ago--"language
>> acquisition is
>> for women".  By the way, I also heard, within linguistic theory itself
>> remarks like "morphology
>> is for women", but not recently.
>>
>> Tom Roeper
>>
>>
>> On Sun, Aug 18, 2013 at 7:16 AM, Virginia Valian <vvvstudents at gmail.com>wrote:
>>
>>> 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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