measuring androgyny

• those who score highly on both masculine and feminine dimensions of the Bem Sex Role Inventory are categorised as androgynous
• men normally scored higher on masculine traits and women on feminine traits
• BEM found that 34% of males and 27% of females were androgynous
• a small number of people from the BSRI were described as undifferentiated
• in the BSRI, each person rates themselves on a 7-point likert scale ranging from never true to almost always true
• there are 3 categories in the BSRI

  • masculine
  • feminine
  • neutral
• SPENCE et al pointed out a 4th category - undifferentiated

  • where a person is neither masculine or feminine