Women have traditionally deferred to the judgment of men although often while intimating a sensibility of their own which is at variance with that judgment.

She is currently a visiting professor with the University of Cambridge (Centre for Gender Studies). In 1997 Carol Gilligan was appointed to the Patricia Albjerg Graham Chair in Gender Studies. D.

She is currently a Professor at New York University and a Visiting Professor at the University of Cambridge. Carol Gilligan (born November 28 1936) is an American feminist ethicist and psychologist best known for her work with and against Lawrence Kohlberg on ethical community and ethical relationships and certain subject-object problems in ethics.