Word: genderism
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...There are now dozens of studies regarding this claim, and I think it's fair to say that the vast majority do not find that these moral orientations are gender-related," says Lawrence J. Walker, a University of British Columbia professor of psychology who wrote a definitive study in 1984 casting significant doubt on Gilligan's theories...
When her work was attacked in 1987, Gilligan said that even if scientists have challenged the book, its findings made sense to many readers. Many agreed that men and women might use two different styles of moral reasoning--"justice" and "care"--roughly divided along gender lines...
...some feminists warn that Gilligan's assertions of differences between the sexes has actually encouraged a dangerous backlash toward biological determinism and traditional gender roles...
Gilligan has brought that legacy to New York University Law School, where she has been co-teaching a seminar on "issues of developing and expressing dissenting voice against the stereotypes of gender and sexuality" for the past two years, according to NYU Law Professor David Richards...
...examination of gender differences and their significance, and to broadening our understanding of morality," Walker says. "In my view, however, her contribution to the field would be even much greater if she were willing to revise her ideas in light of other scholars' valid criticisms and the accumulated empirical evidence...