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Gilligan's Critique

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Gilligan argued that Kohlberg's sequence privileges reasoning from justice over reasoning from care and relationship.

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A response emphasizing the harm to relationships scores lower on Kohlberg's scale without being less developed.

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Empirical support for a consistent gender difference is weak. The critique of what the scale rewards has held up better.

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