Two responsible government studies report that the nationwide figure is closer to one percent. Women have been shortchanged in medical research. Beginning in 1985, when the NIH's National Cancer Center began keeping track of specific cancer funding, it has annually spent more money on breast cancer than any other type of cancer. Girls get better grades, they have higher aspirations, and they are more likely to go to college. But this survey revealed that girls are doing almost as much harassing as the boys.
Girls suffer a dramatic loss of self-esteem during adolescence.
Gilligan has always enjoyed higher standing among feminist activists and journalists than among academic research psychologists. Gender is a social construction. These self-appointed experts on sexuality are scientifically illiterate. They substitute dogma and propaganda for reasoned scholarship. Women's Studies Departments empowered women and gave them a voice in the academy.