A certain book came out and it tackled the way that women acquire knowledge. This book is a product of an al woman team of surveyors/ researchers who focused on the way that women think or acquire learning and knowledge. The book is called A Womens Ways of Knowing. The researchers interviewed 135 women about their gender, relationships with other people, their ways of accepting or acquiring knowledge and their various moral dilemmas. As we learn about these, improve our chances for development of self, voice and mind.

These interviews yielded five ways of knowing. These ways of knowing delve into how women perceive themselves and how they approach the world at large. It was gleaned from the in-depth interviews that the way women think regarding education and knowledge affect self-perception and self-perception also affects the way we acquire knowledge.

One of the ways of knowing or acquiring knowledge is silence. In silence, one perceives the authority figure as the ultimate source of learning and knowledge. This type of learning or way of learning encourages blind obedience to authority figures. According to philosophers, the women do not even question or try to analyze the why and how of the information imparted by the authority figure, they just accept it as the truth. Incases like these, the women perceive themselves in stereotypes which are lower than authority figures. Again, according to philosophers, they have difficulty defining themselves as individual thinkers and thus they accept what is feed to them without any resistance for fear of rejection or conflict.