Sentence examples for gender flexibility from inspiring English sources

Feminism, DeMott laments, once stood for a belief in "gender flexibility," the idea that career aspirations and social roles should not be limited by sex.

She urges men to be more like "Plastic Woman," whose gender flexibility has led to prosperity in fields formerly dominated by men.

"I wanted to draw a place that had no inherent top or bottom as a way to evoke sexual and gender flexibility and I wanted that idea to run concurrently through the drawing with ideas about circuitry and circulation, the electricity of the body, mirrors and mirroring and outer space," says Fake. Edie Fake's work will be displayed at Marlborough Chelsea through April 23rd.

As a final note, gender flexibility in dress has almost always been more acceptable for the elite classes (this was certainly true of the 17th and 18th centuries, and perhaps today as well), where it might be viewed as "eccentric" rather than "deviant".

In addition, results documented age- and gender-related differences; younger participants, and sometimes boys, exhibited less flexibility regarding gender stereotypes than did older and female participants.

"These studies show that deep-rooted cultural values intertwining work devotion and gender identity drive the flexibility stigma," said Professor Williams said.

Yet it's amid this flexibility of gender and class, this disappearance of enforced standards of dress, that new standards are emerging.

There was, a significant gender interaction for cognitive flexibility (pinteraction = 0.013 for sex), but not for executive function (pinteraction = 0.35 for sex).

In other words, the prison system demanded – and received – the flexibility to maintain gender-specific grooming standards based on gender-specific stereotypes.

These types differed in key characteristics such as whether or not they were authoritarian, the degree of demands regarding women's obedience, different levels of competitiveness, and, most important, different degrees of flexibility regarding traditional gender relations.

Although interviews with female participants were mostly conducted in the women's waiting rooms and interviews with male participants in the men's waiting rooms, there were some instances of flexibility relative to gender rules.