Common dimensions for straight and angled parking. Dimensions of angle parking spaces. These dimensions are standard for most of the US. They are designed to yield a parking space that is 9'X18' with adequate room for maneuvering in and out of the space.
It is one of a cluster of normative ethical theories that were developed by feminists in the second half of the twentieth century. While consequentialist and deontological ethical theories emphasize universal standards and impartiality, ethics of care emphasize the importance of response.
While early strains of care ethics can be detected in the writings of feminist philosophers such as Mary Wollstonecraft, Catherine and Harriet Beecher, and Charlotte Perkins, it was first most explicitly articulated by Carol Gilligan and Nel Noddings in the early 1980s.