ABSTRACT
This chapter discusses the role of gender in the Route 2 project. Significant gender issues have lain beneath the surface of the Route 2 project throughout its history, but they have rarely been articulated, as such, in the debates that have taken place. There were plenty of classic examples of sexism and patriarchy in the life of the Route 2 project but sexist behavior is often isolated as a "private" matter in the society. Most of the early women leaders of the Route 2 project worked or had worked and also maintained traditional gender roles as wives and mothers. There were Route 2 project male leaders and professional men who worked in the project with relational skills, and there were also women without them. Populist feminist Mary Dietz disagrees with Nancy Hartsock and Carol Gilligan and argues, as would the populist women in the Route 2 project, that the dichotomy between justice and care is false.
