Carol Gilligan is associated with

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  1. the natural justice
  2. the responsibility
  3. the principle of loyalty
  4. the ethics of care

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Option 4 : the ethics of care
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  • Gilligan is an important psychologist who focuses on gender differences particular moral problems.
  • She argues that the difference between men and women is the product of social influences and gender conditioning.
  • She emphasizes that women's ways of thinking are often undervalued compared to men.
  • She based her theory on the ethics of caring mentioning women’s concern.

 

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