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Tip of the Proverbial Ice Berg

Her complaint is not that it is unjust to leave women out of psychology (though she says that).  But instead that it is not good psychology if it leaves out half of the human race.

bulletKohlberg's stage theory was that the moral system is developed by the concept of "What are the rules of the game?"
bulletGilligan's interviews countered this model in that women's moral system included the "caring thing to do"
bulletFocus came to be moral development in girls.
bulletHer interest in these dilemmas grew as she interviewed young men thinking about enlisting for the Vietnam War and women who were contemplating abortions.
bulletWhich later led into studying the development of boys.

 

Later studies have said that men also include the "caring thing to do" but perhaps not to the same degree