“…Ethics of care has developed over the last 40 years from diverse areas of study: feminism, education, psychology, political science, nursing and philosophy, drawn together by an interest in care as practice, and guiding concepts that include relationality, contextuality, vulnerability, embodiment and attention to power. 27 Carol Gilligan in a critique of Kohlberg's theory of moral development, 28 which identified that boys were able to reach a higher level of moral development than girls, argued that rather than exhibiting a less developed moral outlook, the girls in the study instead solved ethical dilemmas with an eye to responsibility, relationships and individual circumstance (in other words, they used an 'ethic of care'), rather than relying on abstract rules or principles (which Gilligan came to call an 'ethic of justice').…”