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Times, happily, change. Today the interior lives of women are being intensely scrutinized by a band of 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...
...result of girls burying their knowledge, says psychologist Lyn Mikel Brown, a member of the Harvard project, "is self-doubt, ambivalence, panic and loss." Researchers link this confusion to the prevalence among teenage girls of depression and eating disorders...
...reply, revisionist researchers argue that their work offers a way to liberate women and transform society. If women's approach to life is acknowledged as authentic, they will no longer need to act like men. "What we are doing is more revolutionary than early feminism," declares psychologist Judith Jordan, co-founder of the women's studies program at McLean Hospital in Belmont, Mass. "We believe that the culture, which has been one of power, objectification and violence, has to change. Women's sensitivity to relationship offers a special gift in making that occur...
...there a Daddy Track? No," says Edward Zigler, a Yale psychologist. "The message is that if a man takes paternity leave, he's a very strange person who is not committed to the corporation. It's very bleak." Says Felice Schwartz, who explored the notion of a Mommy Track in a 1989 article in the Harvard Business Review: "There isn't any forgiveness yet of a man who doesn't really give his all." So today's working stiff really enjoys no more meaningful options than did his father, the pathetic guy in the gray flannel suit who was pilloried...
...might be equally cynical about men opening up to other men. Atlanta psychologist Augustus Napier tells of two doctors whose lockers were next to each other in the surgical dressing room of a hospital. For years they talked about sports, money and other safe "male" subjects. Then one of them learned that the other had tried to commit suicide -- and had never so much as mentioned the attempt to him. So much for male bonding...