All we need to know about Carol Gilligan's life and study.

1. Hi there!
and she will be our topic
for this afternoon session!

2. ... helping voices to be heard.
American Feminist, ethicist, and
psychologist.

3. • How would we understand the
world if women were not included
in general human development
studies?
• How are men and women different
and how are they similar?
• Have you ever been in a situation
where you have silenced and felt
like you couldn't say what you
what you wanted t?

4. • Are women and men different?
• How can we get women and girls on the map?
• A different voice
• Towards a new understanding

5. • There is research and theory about
gender differences that valued the voices
of girls and women.
• women are more likely to make moral
decisions based on issues of care,
inclusion, and personal connection,
rather on a more abstract and distant
notion of justice.
• she interviewed mostly to conduct her
research

6. • Born on Nov. 28, 1936
• FAMILY
⚬ Raised in Jewish family in New York city.
⚬ Father was a lawyer and mother was a nursery school teacher.
⚬ Married to a fellow psychologist James Gilligan M.D.
⚬ Has three sons
• INTERESTS
⚬ Literature and theater arts
⚬ Piano
⚬ Pursued modern dance as an undergrad
⚬ Love and relationships

7. INFORMATION
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8. • Erik Erikson- "ego" psychoanalysis,
identity crisis, 8 stages of moral
development
• Lawrence Kohlberg- Five sages of moral
Devlopment, adolescent research
• Mary Belenky- Five stages of Knowing,
silence

9. • Gilligan's theory of moral
development is called the Ethics of
Care.
• Through her research, she found the
idea of care to be essential when
considering the development of all people,
and that all humans value the ability
to create and maintain relationships.

10. • Pre-conventional stage, -
person -benefit of themselves.
• Conventional stage, someone
else-regardless of how it makes
the decision-maker feel.
• Post-conventional stage,
balance- best for both parties ,
accountability for the
consequences.

11. • Gilligan's theory included research findings
from women whereas Kohlberg did not address
the pattern of behavior of women.
• Gilligan also suggested that decisions are made
based on experience and care, not just right or
wrong justice-based thinking.

12. • Known for lectures integrating literature, mythology, biography, and
history.
• Women like to solved problems and do school work that involve
relationships within the community, and "real-life" dilemmas.