(1) Androgyny had a significant main effect on spatial ability, the more androgynous subjects being superior.
(2) Likewise, androgyny scores did not distinguish individuals in traditional careers from those in non-traditional careers.
(3) As in previous studies, men in this study scored higher than women on masculinity and androgyny and lower on femininity.
(4) There were significant correlations between age and both androgyny and n Ach scores, but no significant correlation between androgyny and n Ach scores.
(5) Data from a survey of 58 gay men and 58 lesbians are compared to college men and women on Spence and Helmreich's (1978) Personality Attributes Questionnaire measures of masculinity, femininity, and androgyny.
(6) Both groups showed a similar response pattern on the Embedded Figures Test but differed on the Draw-A-Person Test, The Guilford-Zimmerman Temperament Survey, and the Bem Androgyny Scale.
(7) Occupation was found not to be a significant variable in explaining variance among the four groups on their masculinity, femininity, and androgyny scores.
(8) This study assessed possible influences of handedness, sex, familial sinistrality (FS), and self-rated androgyny on language laterality and on spatial and verbal test performances of 225 right-handers and 134 left-handers.
(9) There was a significant difference in psychological androgyny when comparing students by degree program.
(10) Each of the several M-F measures was related significantly to sexual orientation in the combined-sex group, and the combination of the MMPI Mf scale and the Bem Androgyny Score accounted for a small but significantly greater portion of the variance in self-rated sexual orientation than did the MMPI Mf scale alone.
(11) The study involved 338 students enrolled in all six allied health professions programs at Weber State College in Ogden, Utah, who completed the Bem Sex-Role Inventory (BSRI), a measure of psychological androgyny.
(12) With its teen address, deep androgyny and dancehall imperative, the song was very much in line with previous Bowie hits such as "John, I'm Only Dancing" and "The Jean Genie".
(13) Sex-role identity for both groups was near the adolescent girl norms for both Femininity and Masculinity, with virilized CAH girls showing slightly higher Androgyny scores.
(14) Androgyny measures differed only by gender, not by sexual orientation.
(15) Teased at school for her “skinny frame”, her angular androgyny is well received in the modelling world, and she appears on the covers of Vogue and Stern .
(16) These results indicate that the BSRI Androgyny score reflects a bipolar dimension.
(17) Related to the issue of sexism is the concept of psychological androgyny, or the lack of tendency toward masculine or feminine traits.
(18) Results indicated that students in all dental hygiene programs are most frequently sex-typed as feminine, with androgyny as the second most frequently sex-typed characteristic.
(19) Five hypothetical outcomes in androgyny research and an example involving actual data are presented.
(20) Androgyny scores (3 x biacromial breadth - bicristal breadth) were calculated for 66 female track and field five event categories and 76 female non-athletes.
Feminine
Definition:
(a.) Of or pertaining to a woman, or to women; characteristic of a woman; womanish; womanly.
(a.) Having the qualities of a woman; becoming or appropriate to the female sex; as, in a good sense, modest, graceful, affectionate, confiding; or, in a bad sense, weak, nerveless, timid, pleasure-loving, effeminate.
(n.) A woman.
(n.) Any one of those words which are the appellations of females, or which have the terminations usually found in such words; as, actress, songstress, abbess, executrix.
Example Sentences:
(1) I said, ''It's the fake femininity I can't stand, and the counterfeit voice.
(2) "The new feminine ideal is of egg-smooth perfection from hairline to toes," she writes, describing the exquisite agony of having her fingers, arms, back, buttocks and nostrils waxed.
(3) You won’t read about this in adverts for “feminine hygiene” (because of course having periods makes us dirty).
(4) The connections between childhood gender nonconformity (assessed by the Freund Feminine Gender Identity Scale, or FGI) and adult genitoerotic role (assessed by a sex history) were examined.
(5) These results raise new possibilities about the time course of cellular events underlying the estrogen induction of feminine sexual behavior.
(6) A ngelina Jolie sends young women all sorts of messages: that you can both be a mom and successful businesswoman, that it’s important to take a stand on issues you care about, and that making a healthy choice “in no way diminishes [your] femininity”.
(7) Previous research by Bem has indicated that androgynous individuals of both sexes display "masculine" independence when under pressure to conform as well as "feminine" nurturance when interacting with a kitten.
(8) Hakim is keen to stress that her thesis is "evidence based" and nothing to do with prejudice or ideology, and finishes her introduction with this rallying cry: "why not champion femininity rather than abolish it?
(9) It's like The Feminine Mystique, that, in tweet form.
(10) Self-acceptance scores were significantly lower for women scientists than for professional and student groups, and femininity scores were significantly lower for scientists than for all other groups of women.
(11) Men who adopted a submissive feminine role and women with high masculine aggressive scores were more permissive as regards drinking.
(12) The TVs were significantly higher than the OPs on role identity, indicating a more feminine identification.
(13) In the present study the capacity for liver regeneration following PH in the RH model was studied in rats of both sexes, in castrated males and in males receiving GH infusion, both treatments leading to a feminine pattern of GH secretion.
(14) The study provides important information regarding the image of nurses crossculturally and the close link between nursing and femininity.
(15) Personality differences among three self-ascribed render-role types (predominantly masculine, predominantly feminine, or no predominant orientation) were investigated within a group of 128 male and female homosexuals.
(16) The sex of the subject remained a significant predictor of both pain thresholds and tolerances after allowing for the influence of masculinity-femininity, social desirability, and their associated interactions.
(17) We want feminine power pumping up the muscles of the political skeleton of our countries like never before.
(18) We interpreted findings in terms of a tendency to self-focus that might prime feminine people to experience depression, or alternately, as a lack of self-focusing that may insulate masculine individuals from the experience of depression.
(19) Eighty-four undergraduate female students completed Baucom's Masculinity and Femininity Scales, the Bem Sex Role Inventory, and the Adjective Check List.
(20) Every piece of business research that has ever been done shows that when a company puts a women on their board the company does better yet women make up 17% of the boards of FTSE 100 companies and that is a parlous state.” The broadcaster said she was inspired by more feminine values that had particularly influenced one Icelandic company, run by two women , which survived Iceland’s economic collapse a few years ago.