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...academic with the big selling power was Carol Gilligan, associate professor of Education at the Graduate School of Education, who Ms. named "Woman of the Year...
...months after the Ms. story. The New York Times also focused public attention on Gilligan, heralding her as a "vanguard" of a movement of new psychological research on women...
...Gilligan's recent national exposure is the result of her pioneering research on the differences between male and female moral reasoning and the conclusions she has drawn about human development...
...Gilligan's research reveals that while men tend to make decisions based on concern for rules, justice and individual rights, women's moral decisions more often are relative to the situation and place a greater emphasis on an ethic of care and on the preservation of relationships...
...year-old Gilligan argues that these stages don't fairly represent the ethic of care and responsibility that she has found in her interviews with don't fairly represent the ethic of care and responsibility that she has found in her interviews with girls and women. "Women just don't fit the schemes," Gilligan says, adding, "rather than finding problems in female development, I find problems in the schemes...