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  2. Femininity - Wikipedia

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    Women in Ancient Greece wore himations; and in Ancient Rome women wore the palla, a rectangular mantle, and the maphorion. [54] The typical feminine outfit of aristocratic women of the Renaissance was an undershirt with a gown and a high-waisted overgown, and a plucked forehead and beehive or turban-style hairdo. [54]

  3. List of psychological tests by gender difference - Wikipedia

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    Women 1994 Kolb's Learning Styles Inventory - Reflective Observation 0.01 [2] Women 1994 Kolb's Learning Styles Inventory - Active Experimentation 0.02 [2] Women 1994 Barratt Impulsiveness Scale: 0.11 [3] Men 2011 Kolb's Learning Styles Inventory - Abstract Conceptualization 0.16 [2] Men 1994 Narcissistic Personality Inventory: 0.15 [4] Men 2008

  4. Bem Sex-Role Inventory - Wikipedia

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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.

  5. Woman - Wikipedia

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    ' woman-person ') whereas ' man ' was wer or wǣpnedmann (from wǣpn ' weapon; penis '). However, following the Norman Conquest, man began to mean ' male human ', and by the late 13th century it had largely replaced wer. [14] The consonants /f/ and /m/ in wīfmann coalesced into the modern woman, while wīf narrowed to specifically mean a ...

  6. Gender role - Wikipedia

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    Maltz and Broker's research suggested that the games children play may contribute to socializing children into masculine and feminine gender roles: [128] for example, girls being encouraged to play "house" may promote stereotypically feminine traits, and may promote interpersonal relationships as playing house does not necessarily have fixed ...

  7. Ideal womanhood - Wikipedia

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    A great deal of writing has been done on the subject. The subject of the Ideal Woman has been treated humorously, [9] [10] theologically, [11] and musically. [12] Examples of "ideal women" are portrayed in literature, for example: Sophie, a character in Jean-Jacques Rousseau's Emile: or, On Education (book V) who is raised to be the perfect ...

  8. Feminine beauty ideal - Wikipedia

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    The feminine beauty ideal is a specific set of beauty standards regarding traits that are ingrained in women throughout their lives and from a young age to increase their perceived physical attractiveness. It is experienced by many women in the world, though the traits change over time and vary in country and culture. [1]

  9. Gender schema theory - Wikipedia

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    Cross-sex-typed individuals process and integrate information that is in line with the opposite gender. Their femininity and masculinity scores are reversed - below the median on the sex-congruent scale and above the median on the sex-incongruent scale. Androgynous individuals process and integrate traits and information from both genders.