The Ethic of Care: How We View Moral and Ethical Virtues Between Genders

Indianapolis, IN

In an article regarding the ethics of care, many moral issues and developments regarding differences between genders are presented. Studies conducted by Kohlberg and Gilligan present two different viewpoints on the moral ways of life between men and women. Men and women can be portrayed differently in society because although we are all human, men and women differ slightly due to gender. Obvious differences exist such as different reproductive organs, body strength, body physique, etc.; however there are other differences such as appropriate moral virtues between women and men. Moral virtues are all the same between men and women when thinking in Kohlberg's third level of maturity; however while only thinking in Kohlberg's second level of maturity, men and women do have different appropriate moral virtues.