We live in a complex world, yet we want to divide people into two genders. We expect men to be masculine and women to be feminine. With modern psychology, we have learned that we have both within us.

Phrases like “toxic masculinity’ and “toxic femininity’ have become commonplace, often employed to categorize certain negative behaviors associated with each gender. However, a deeper dive into these ...

To understand how U.S. adults see their own masculinity and femininity, we asked men and women to rate themselves on two scales: We then subtracted ratings on the femininity scale from ratings on the ...