The Bem Sex-role Inventory was administered to 100 male and 100 female students in introductory psychology at the University of Georgia and at Adelphi University in New York. It was hypothesized that the latter would be more androgynous than the former, but in fact, there was no association between geographic locale and sex-role identification. Findings reported by Bem for a 1975 sample of Stanford undergraduates are similar to current results, suggesting that college students in the Northeast, Southeast and West do not differ with regard to sex-role identification.
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