CHARACTERISTICS OF ANDROGYNOUS, UNDIFFERENTIATED, MASCULINE, AND FEMININE MIDDLE-CLASS WOMEN

The Bem Sex-Role Inventory was given to a random sample of 369 middle-class, 20-59-year-old women during the second year of a panel study. A median split on the masculine and feminine scores was used to define feminine (47%), androgynous (24%), masculine (10%), and undifferentiated (19%) women. The four groups were compared using analysis of variance and multiple regression techniques on a variety of demographic, attitudinal, time utilization, personality, and health characteristics to investigate the relationships among sex-typing, attitudes, and behavior. Significant demographic, time utilization, personality, and attitudinal differences were generally consistent with sex-typing, but differences in health were not found. © 1979 Plenun Publlshing Corporation.