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Gilligan's Critique

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Kohlberg studied only boys; Gilligan argued his scale wrongly scored an ethic of care as less mature than an ethic of justice.

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Reasoning that weighs relationships and care scores lower on his scale than reasoning framed around abstract rules.

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The sample-bias critique stands as fact; the equal-maturity claim is Gilligan's and unsettled, and her gender-difference findings themselves failed to replicate.

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