The Committee on the Status of Women in Linguistics invites all members of the LSA to join us in an open breakfast meeting on Saturday, 6 January, 8:00 - 9:00 AM, in the Latrobe Room, during the LSA Annual Meeting in Washington, DC. At this meeting we will discuss our ongoing COSWL projects, including the Survey of the Status of Women in Linguistics, Women in Linguistics Mentoring Program (WILMA), 2001 LSA Summer Institute Workshop, and the Survey of Courses on Language and Gender. We will also discuss possible future projects and the direction of COSWL in the coming years. All LSA members are invited to participate in this meeting, as well as in all COSWL projects, and we particularly welcome input from new participants.
As part of the ongoing 25th anniversary celebration of COSWL, we are pleased to present here a list of 50 prominent American women linguists born between 1900-1931, compiled by Christina Bratt Paulston (to also be published in the Journal of Multilingual and Multicultural Development, forthcoming). Dr. Paulston encourages readers to contact her at paulston@imap.pitt.edu with additional names: Virginia French Allen; Beryl Bailey; Emma Birkmaier; Ruth Brend; Catherine A. Callaghan; Courtney Cazden; Betty Lou Dubois; Audrey Duckert; Sue Ervin-Tripp; Ilah Fleming; Francine Frank; Victoria Fromkin; Jean Berko Gleason; Barbara F. Grimes; Sarah Gudschinsky; Adelaide Hahn; Evelyn Hatch; Ruth Hirsch-Weir; Eleanor Harz Jorden; Mary Ritchie Key; Grace de Laguna; Margaret Langdon; Mildred Larson; Dorothy Lee; Ilse Lehiste; Madeleine Mathiot; Esther Matteson; Nancy Modiam; Constance Naish; Catherine Peeke; Anita Bradley Pfeiffer; Velma Pickett; Eunice Pike; Evelyn Pike; Gladys Reichard; Wilga Rivers; Betty Wallace Robinett; Janet B. Sawyer; Margaret Schlauch; Olive Shell; Eva Sivertson; Marianna C. Slocum; Vera John Steiner; Gillian Story; Evangelina Arana de Swadesh; Edith Crowell Trager; Felicia Harben Trager; Betsy Uldall; Florence Robinett Voegelin; Viola Waterhouse; Mary Ruth Wise.
We would also like to draw attention to the book Women, Language and Linguistics (Routledge 1999) by Julia Falk, which contains biographies of three important women linguists, E. Adelaide Hahn, Gladys Amanda Reichard, and Alice Vanderbilt Morris. We hope that publishing this list and noting the availability of Dr. Falk's book will increase general awareness of the large number of women who made major contributions to our discipline during the last century and who in many cases continue to lead us as the present century gets under way.