[cmccuist]

You can't let this go without responding. I would find out why only women were invited to present papers. Why do they feel compelled to solicit papers from women professors? Do they already have enough papers on the subject written by men?

If this is just a PC exercise to make women feel better about themselves then it's a bogus conference. If the conference organizers are genuinely interested in gaining a perspective from every angle and the female professors are underrepresented, then they may have a valid reason for excluding the men.