For them, if science is gendered, they have already learned their lesson. The feminist approach, here, clearly cuts across any differences between men and women. Rather, the focus on gender highlights a set of cultural biases in how we conceive and practice science as a way of knowing. The value of the perspective is that it makes us more aware of these biases, especially where they lay unnoticed, and it begins to clarify the alternatives. It is non-experimental.
All knowledge is accumulated through experience.
Stories and narratives of examples substitute for principles, derivations and law-like expressions. The knowledge is largely practical or skill-oriented, not embodied in symbolic theories. It is sensitive to particular cases. The interaction of the midwife and the patient is also personal, and emotion is never been far from the intellect. A midwife attends holistically to a large number of variables acting simultaneously.