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Country Masculinity Scores by Gender and
Gender Scores by Age

Country MAS scores were also computed separately for men and women. 12

Figure 5.2 shows in simplified form the relationship between masculin-
ity by gender and masculinity by country. It reveals that from the most
feminine (tender) countries to the most masculine (tough) countries, both
the values of men and of women became tougher, but the country differ-
ence was larger for men than for women. In the most feminine countries,
Sweden and Norway, there was no difference between the scores of men
and women, and both expressed equally tender, nurturing values. In the
most masculine countries in the IBM database, Japan and Austria, the
men scored very tough and the women fairly tough, but the gender gap
was largest. From the most feminine to the most masculine country, the
range of MAS scores for men was about 50 percent wider than the range
for women. Women’s values differ less among countries than men’s values

FIGURE 5.2 Country Masculinity Scores by Gender

Tender Tough

Men
Men
Masculinity Index by Gender Women

Women

0 50 100
Country Masculinity Index