<div dir="ltr"><font face="arial, helvetica, sans-serif">Dear Anna,</font><div><font face="arial, helvetica, sans-serif"><br></font></div><div><span style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif">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.</span><font face="arial, helvetica, sans-serif"><br>
</font><div><font face="arial, helvetica, sans-serif"><br></font></div><div><font face="arial, helvetica, sans-serif">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.</font></div>
<div><font face="arial, helvetica, sans-serif"><br></font></div><div><font face="arial, helvetica, sans-serif">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.</font></div>
<div><font face="arial, helvetica, sans-serif"><br></font></div><div><font face="arial, helvetica, sans-serif">As the links I provided earlier spell out in more detail - and see my gender tutorial 4, <a href="http://www.hunter.cuny.edu/gendertutorial/slides/gt04.htm">www.hunter.cuny.edu/gendertutorial/slides/gt04.htm</a> - 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.</font></div>
<div><font face="arial, helvetica, sans-serif"><br></font></div><div><font face="arial, helvetica, sans-serif">Sincerely,</font></div><div><font face="arial, helvetica, sans-serif"><br></font></div><div><font face="arial, helvetica, sans-serif">VVV</font></div>
<div><font face="arial, helvetica, sans-serif"><br></font></div><div><font face="arial, helvetica, sans-serif">Virginia Valian </font></div><div><br></div><div><font face="arial, helvetica, sans-serif"><br></font></div><div>
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