March 3, 2006

Ethics Education for Men and Women

To the Editor:

The gendered results reported by Philip J. Langlais in "Ethics for the Next Generation" (The Chronicle Review, January 13) were predictable. While initially nearly 18 percent of women and less than 10 percent of men thought ethical decisions are easily made and agreed upon, after an ethics workshop the results flipped, with 10.5 percent of the women and 21.2 percent of the men thinking this.

My interpretation is that before the workshop, the women were confident