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</o:shapelayout></xml><![endif]--></head><body lang=EN-US link=blue vlink=purple><div class=WordSection1><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman","serif"'>Dear Virginia (and members of the list),<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman","serif"'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman","serif"'>The organizers of the SLD Symposia are very committed to gender equity in our field. Over the past several years, the symposia have included a truly balanced mix of male and female speakers (14 women and 15 men, according to the list below) and for next year we have settled on a topic that involves an all-female line-up of speakers. With only three speakers per group, sometimes we get a single-gender group (as was the case this year) but overall this does not skew the gender distribution:<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman","serif"'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman","serif"'>2004: Heidi Feldman, Pat Kuhl, Laura-Ann Petitto (inaugural symposium)<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman","serif"'>2005: Marc Hauser, Timothy Gentner, Michael Tomasello<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman","serif"'>2006: Cynthia Fisher, Dedre Gentner, Adele Goldberg<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman","serif"'>2007: Janet Pierrehumbert, Josh Tenenbaum, Steve Pinker<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman","serif"'>2008: Susan Carey, Susan Gelman, Linda Smith<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman","serif"'>2009: Laura Schulz, Gergely Csibra, Renee Baillargeon<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman","serif"'>2010: Noam Chomsky, Randy Gallistel<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman","serif"'>2011: Rebecca Treiman, Charles Perfetti, Mark Seidenberg<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman","serif"'>2012: Rebecca Saxe, Alvaro Pascual-Leone, Ani Patel<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman","serif"'>2013: John Trueswell, Luca Bonatti, Michael Frank<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman","serif"'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman","serif"'>The Society recognizes the importance of balanced gender representation beyond the make-up of the Symposia. As many members of Info-Childes know, the past and present Editors of the SLD journal (‘Language Learning and Development’) have been women (Susan Goldin-Meadow; Cynthia Fisher), as is the SLD President (Lila Gleitman), several members of the editorial and advisory boards, and the current Chair of the SLD Symposium committee (myself).<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman","serif"'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman","serif"'>So we very much agree with the idea that we should not just be aiming for but achieving gender equity in our field – in fact, we believe that, in organizing our annual Symposia, we have come very close to doing just that. We will continue our efforts to invite outstanding scientists (both women and men) to participate in the Society’s activities. <o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman","serif"'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman","serif"'>We are looking forward to seeing everyone in the SLD Symposium in October!<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman","serif"'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman","serif"'>Best,<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman","serif"'>Anna<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman","serif"'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman","serif"'>-------------------------<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman","serif"'>Associate Professor & Director of Graduate Education<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman","serif"'>Department of Psychology<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman","serif"'>University of Delaware<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman","serif"'><a href="http://papafragou.psych.udel.edu">http://papafragou.psych.udel.edu</a><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman","serif"'><o:p> </o:p></span></p></div></body></html>
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