Virginia Valian

Virginia Valian is an American psycholinguist, cognitive scientist, and theorist of male-female differences in professional achievement.

Valian is a Distinguished Professor at Hunter College as well as a member of the doctoral faculties of Psychology, Linguistics, and Speech-Language-Hearing Sciences at the CUNY Graduate Center. She directs the Language Acquisition Research Center (LARC) and the Gender Equity Project (GEP), both at Hunter College. For her work on gender equity, Valian received the 2006 Betty Vetter Award for Research from WEPAN (Women in Engineering ProActive Network). She became an elected member of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences in 2023. Provided by Wikipedia