ABSTRACT
The Women’s Nontraditional Sexuality Questionnaire is based on the Gender Role Strain Paradigm (GRSP) which posits that girls internalize dominant expectations for traditional femininity and experience psychological stress, strain, and conflict as they navigate a binary gendered world. The Male Role Norms Inventory (MRNI) is a measure of masculinity ideologies, a central construct in the GRSP. The Femininity Ideology Scale was created to measure traditional femininity ideology, a central construct in the GRSP. The GRSP posits that gender roles are adopted during childhood socialization under the influence of gender ideologies, continue into adulthood, and result in gender role strain, stress, and conflict. The Femininities Scale allows for a more accurate assessment of the varied ways respondents might enact their own femininity or construe the concept of femininity. The Sex is Power Scale was developed with young women, mostly college undergraduates, who primarily identified as heterosexual. This measure was an offshoot from the development of the Enjoyment of Sexualization Scale.
