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...educators and ethicists, linguists and psychologists. Far from being deficient, their studies show, women are as fully developed psychologically as men, and their ethical judgments are equally valid. The reality is that women experience life differently from men; consequently, they think differently. In the words of Harvard psychologist Carol Gilligan, a central figure in this dynamic research movement, they have "a different voice...
...Gilligan said that there are no studies on women comparable to the study...
During girls' adolescence, Gilligan said, there is "a fear to know what one knows...
Citing several examples from her interviews with adolescent girls at elementary and senior high schools, Gilligan noted that the girls "were in some odd relationship with their own knowledge...
Girls are encouraged to take themselves out of relationships, she said, and to give up their own knowledge of themselves. Gilligan suggested that Harvard University Health Services might have a future role in strengthening resistance in women and helping them "to recover lost voices," she said...