The blind willingness to sacrifice people to truth, however, has always been the danger of an ethics abstracted from life.
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. . . while men represent powerful activity as assertion and aggression, women in contrast portray acts of nurturance as acts of strength.Carol Gilligan
The hardest times for me were not when people challenged what I said, but when I felt my voice was not heard.
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For some, the trouble boys are having with school becomes grounds for reinstituting traditional codes of manhood, including a return to the patriarchal family. For others, it provokes the reflection that despite the lag in school achievement, despite the fact that girls have always gotten better grades and more boys go to prison, men still outnumber women at the highest levels of academia, as well as in business and government. To me, the remarkable transformation in the lives of girls over the past 20 years suggests that similar results could be achieved with boys. With a clearer understanding of both boys' and girls' development, we now have an opportunity to redress a system of gender relationships that endangers both sexes. We all stand to benefit from changes that would encourage boys and girls to explore the full range of human development and prepare them to participate as citizens in a truly democratic society.
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I've found that if I say what I'm really thinking and feeling, people are more likely to say what they really think and feel. The conversation becomes a real conversation.
Carol Gilligan
My 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.
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