gender

• gender identity

  someones personal, internal sense of gender
• Someone's biological sex is...

  whether they are male or female based on their biology and anatomy
• Someone’s gender is...

  whether they are a man or a woman based on their appearance, behaviour and psychological traits.
• androgyny


  having high levels of male and female behavioural and personality traits
• In the 1970s, Sandra  Bem described people with high levels of both  masculine and feminine  traits as  androgynous .
• The Bem Sex Role Inventory measures…

  how much people conform to sex-role stereotypes.

  how androgynous people are.
• Three strengths of the BSRI are…

  •  it has high external reliability
  • it has low gender bias ( 50 men, 50 women)
  • it has high internal reliability (split-test)
• Limitations of BSRI

  • people may interpret the scale in different ways
  • it may lack temporal validity
• Flaherty and Dusek conducted a study showing that people who are  androgynous , according to the  BSRI , tend to have higher  emotional well-being  than those who are not androgynous.