GE 11

• Masculinity-Femininity is related to age; males show high level of masculinity in their late teens and early 20s -- according to Terman and Miles
• By the early 1970s, the concept of bipolar MF was beginning to show its age
• Anne Constantinopole argued that masculinity-femininity scales were often based on cultural stereotypes rather than on real differences between men and women.
• On 1950s psychologists had developed personality traits.

  • Instrumental or Agentic Traits - More associated with men. Goal-oriented, focused on the external world of work.
  • Expressive Test - Associated with women. People-oriented, focused more on the private worlds of family and personal relationships.
• Bem Sex-Role Inventory - which measured masculinity and femininity as two separate dimensions.
• Bem's 4-way classification of people:

  • Stereotypically Masculine
  • Stereotypically Feminine
  • Androgynous
  • Undifferentiated
• • Stereotypically Masculine - People who are high on M but low on F. These people report that they are independent and dominant, for example, but not kind or compassionate.
• • Stereotypically Feminine - People who are high on F but low on M (e.g., kind and compassionate, but not independent or dominant).
• • Androgynous - People can be high on both M and F (e.g., independent and dominant, and kind and compassionate).
• • Undifferentiated - People that score low on both M and F
• Republic Act 10354 or the Responsible Parenthood and Reproductive Health Law of 2012 (RH Law)
• RA 10354 - a national policy that mandates the Philippine government to comprehensively address the needs of Filipino citizens when it comes to responsible parenthood and reproductive health.
• RA 10354 guarantees the following:

  1. access to services on Reproductive Health (RH)and Family Planning (FP)
  2. maternal health care services
  3. reproductive health and sexuality education for the youth
  4. regular funding for the law’s full implementation