While men represent powerful activity as assertion and aggression, women in contrast portray acts of nurturance as acts of strength.
Carol GilliganThe blind willingness to sacrifice people to truth, however, has always been the danger of an ethics abstracted from life.
Carol GilliganI find the question of whether gender differences are biologically determined or socially constructed to be deeply disturbing.
Carol GilliganMy research suggests that men and women may speak different languages that they assume are the same, using similar words to encode disparate experiences of self and social relationships. Because these languages share an overlapping moral vocabulary, they contain a propensity for systematic mistranslation.
Carol Gilligan