androgeny

Androgyny: at Home and in the Workplace According to Webster, to be androgynous means to have both male and female characteristics. In studies of gender, it is referred to as an individual's tendency to report having both traditionally "masculine" and traditionally "feminine" characteristics (Baron & Byrne, 1997). What all that boils down to is that there is a man in every woman and a woman in every man, but by no means should this be interpreted as …

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