I was looking over some notes from a long time ago, and came across and interesting paragraph which I plucked from this article:

“Barash notes that the sociobiological understanding of male/ female differences supports and clarifies Carol Gilligan’s view of male and female moral preferences: The biological evolutionary task of both males and females is to succeed in projecting copies of their genes into the future, to maximize their fitness. . . . Male success is typically achieved by effective competition, female success, by relationship, especially with their own offspring and other relatives. Thus, for boys and men, morality is at its most ideal and alluring when it is a morality of justice, of theoretical principles that place restraints upon aggressive, competitive, self-serving tendencies; for girls and women, on the other hand, morality is suffused with images of relationship, of caring, and of taking care of others. Male morality, as Gilligan describes it, is an ethic of inhibiting one’s nasty self; female morality, in contrast, emphasizes releasing of the caring self.”

I want to go back and read the rest of this sometime.