Feminist Challenges Of The M-F Test

Research is the key to most of the questions we have. However, we as a society have come a long way in the field of research since the development of M-F Testing. The M-F Test was supposed to expose masculine and feminine traits so that parents and teachers could confirm that children were developing their gender identity correctly (90). They used personality traits, characteristics, attitudes and behaviors gave them a score of masculine or feminine and then proceeded to use this information to create the framework for sex-role theory (90). This testing was predominately used from 1930’s to the 1960’s as a good predictor for gender development and they even extended the test to include career recommendations (91). Of course the careers …show more content…
I do not believe that men envy us or that we envy them (95). I believe that we always think that the grass is greener on the other side. I have had many female friends say, if I was only a man I could…. But the truth is that we can. We as mammals have been evolving since the first day of our existence until now. I believe that it is possible that in the beginning men were larger in stature and muscle mass and we relied on them to protect us. I believe that this is where we began. Penis envy and womb envy are just not accurate to today (96). It is society that makes us think that there is this greener pasture on the other side of almost everything that we do. If we have more money more power, more more more we would not be unhappy and we would not want for anything. But have we not understood that no one is truly perfect or happy because of money or power. I have confidence in the fact that we as humans have evolved faster than society and it is truly society that is at fault for our stereotypes and the distribution in power and authority between