21st Century neo-androgyny: A measure of de-gendered androgyny.

The last 45 years of gender research into the benefits of psychological androgyny have resulted in a mélange of results and the benefits of androgyny did not clearly emerge, if at all. The paucity of research on the androgyny hypothesis since the 1980’s would seem to confirm it became outdated. This raises the question did ambiguity surrounding gender and behavior bring the debate to an end? One is now required to ask whether or not the construct of androgyny as some mystical combination of masculine and feminine characteristics is any longer theoretically defensible, and could the study of sex and gender be challenged to offer a new theoretical framework from which a valid and robust concept of androgyny may be derived, and from which the androgyny hypothesis may be re-examined.