I thought I had posted this a while ago but I must have just clicked save. Well, as they say "better late than never"!

Reading Carol Gilligan's book was much like Peggy McIntosh's "Invisible Backpack" in that it made me look inwards. It highlighted many things that I tend to take for granted as a white male.

The most insteresting part of Gilligans book was the emphasis on the effect that parental relationships affect gender dynamics. It also got me wondering how reversing those traditional parental roles might affect childhood development. Are boy's raised by a single mother traditionally able to empathize more with others? Does a girl raised by a single father tend to define herself in more individualistic terms?