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The Bem Sex-Role Inventory (BSRI) is a research tool designed to assess to what degree participants' self concept is defined by socially idealized gender roles. It is a self-report inventory that returns independent scales for masculine and feminine sex-role internalization as well as a scale measuring androgyny.

History
Prior to the advent of the BSRI, inventories of gender roles scored masculinity and femininity on the same scale, treating them as mutually exclusive opposites. In order to adequately study androgyny an inventory that could measure masculinity and femininity independently of each other was required. To this end Sandra Bem published the BSRI in 1974.