The Missing Women

The Missing Women

Inside Higher Ed, 12.19.17

Virginia Valian, distinguished professor of psychology at Hunter College and the Graduate Center of the City University of New York, was a co-author of a 2014 study that found that the inclusion of even one woman on convener" teams had a major impact on who gets to speak: about 25 percent of the speakers invited by all-male teams were women, compared to about 43 percent of the speakers invited by teams with at least one female member.