Carol Gilligan: why I changed my mind on the gender binary

Carol Gilligan: why I changed my mind on the gender binary

When Carol Gilligan began teaching psychology at Harvard University in the late 1960s, “there was a major problem in the field”. The male-dominated staff focused their research on men and boys. Women’s lives were almost never studied, which Gilligan found strange. In her 1977 Harvard Educational Review article “In a Different Voice”, she brought women into the conversation, and caused a stir. Male psychologists whom Gilligan worked with and admi…