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These findings result from week long visits to the all girls Emma Willard school in Troy, N.Y. where Gilligan conducts extensive interviews with the students three times a year...
...justice and caring orientations manifest themselves at Emma Willard. One of the girls that she had placed in the "justice" category turned in two of her fellow classmates for cheating, while more of the "caring-oriented" girls than the "justice oriented" ones handed in a survey that Gilligan had distributed...
...Gilligan uses these findings of both voices to back up her assertion that the "different voice" she uncovered does not completely characterize female moral reasoning, although it can dominate...
...found a concern with "fairness and rights" as well as "care and response" in females she has interviewed. She has also detected both "voices" in males. Thus, Gilligan argues, these combined perspectives should be included in a stage of maturity on a developmental scale...
...Gilligan's work has influenced research efforts outside of her field, says Diana Eck, professor of religion. She adds that Gilligan's ideas about gender differences and moral reasoning are "a generative paradigm for thinking about women and ethics in a cross-cultural sense...