Androgen effects on women's gendered behaviour.
Test of the applicability of the hormonal theory of sex-dimorphic behaviour to adult women is achieved in this study by assembling measures of prenatal and adult androgen exposure, and a broad measure of gendered behaviour on a sample of white women aged 27-30. Androgen exposure in the second (and no other) trimester of fetal life, combined with and in interaction with adult androgens, masculineses women's behaviour and explains a substantial proportion of the within-sex variance in women's adult gendered behaviour.
Udry
J R
JR
Carolina Population Center, University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill, USA.
Morris
N M
NM
Kovenock
J
J
D000328:Adult; D000728:Androgens / Q000009:adverse effects*; D001519:Behavior; D005260:Female; D006801:Humans; D011247:Pregnancy; D011297:Prenatal Exposure Delayed Effects; D012723:Sex; D013739:Testosterone / Q000097:blood; D014930:Women / Q000523:psychology*
D000728:Androgens; D013739:Testosterone