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These findings result from week-long visits to the all-girls Emma Willard secondary school in Troy. N.Y., where Gilligan conducts extensive interviews with the students three times a year...
...Gilligan uses these findings of both voices to back up her assertion that the "different voice" she uncovered does not completely characterize female moral reasoning, although it can dominate...
...found a concern with "fairness and rights" as well as "care and response" in females she has interviewed. She has also detected both "voices" in males. Thus, Gilligan argues, these combined perspectives should be included in a stage of maturity or a developmental scale...
...Gilligan's work has influenced research efforts outside of her field, says Diana Eck, professor of religion, who specializes in comparative religion. She adds that Gilligan's ideas about gender difference and moral reasoning "are a generative paradigm for thinking about women and ethics in a cross-cultural sense...
Trudy Hammer, associate principal at the Emma Willard School says that as a result of Gilligan's findings on female moral development, the school is in the process of overhauling the curriculum and placing more of an emphasis on collaborative learning and lesson the more autonomous competitive techniques. "We're trying to move away from the male way of doing things," she says...