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According to a study in the UK, women with stereotypically masculine personality traits are more likely to gain access to high-paying occupations than women with feminine personality traits. [102] According to another study conducted in Germany, women who fit the stereotypical masculine gender role are generally more successful in their careers ...
Woman with a butch haircut, 2009 Vancouver pride parade Butch is a lesbian who exhibits a masculine identity or gender presentation . [ 1 ] [ 2 ] [ 3 ] Although the term originated in the lesbian community, it is also used by persons who identify as queer in the larger LGBTQIA+ subculture today.
Androgyny is the possession of both masculine and feminine characteristics. [1] Androgyny may be expressed with regard to biological sex or gender expression.. When androgyny refers to mixed biological sex characteristics in humans, it often refers to conditions in which characteristics of both sexes are expressed in a single individual.
Effeminacy or male femininity [1] [2] is the embodiment of feminine traits in boys or men, particularly those considered untypical of men or masculinity. [3] These traits include roles , stereotypes , behaviors, and appearances that are socially associated with girls and women .
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Previously, an androgynous score was thought to be the result of equal masculine and feminine traits, while a sex-typed masculine or feminine score is the result of more traits belonging in one or the other category. The fourth type of score, undifferentiated, was seen as the result of extremely low masculine and feminine traits.
Tomboy is a term referring to girls or young women with masculine traits. It may include wearing androgynous or unfeminine clothing and engaging in physical sports or other activities and behaviors traditionally associated with boys or men .
Femboy refers to a male or non-binary person using aesthetically and culturally female elements to express a more feminine side of the traditional male appearance; [6] [7] Collins English Dictionary defines femboy as "a male whose appearance and behavioural traits are regarded as conventionally feminine". [8]