The voices Gilligan recorded are not the final word. Some follow-up studies by other researchers using Kohlberg’s scoring system have found men and women at the same level of moral development. When the samples are controlled for education and occupation, findings of greater male moral sophistication are rare.
Readers of both sexes report that Gilligan’s theory resonates with their own personal experience. Many men are encouraged that Gilligan does not exclude males from an ethic of care. She even holds out the possibility that in post-conventional morality, the voice of justice and the voice of care can blend into a single human sound. If so, the result might be a caring law that resembles the Golden Rule-"Do unto others as you would have them do unto you."