Gender-Role Insufficiency
Gender-role insufficiency – a term used within certain psychological models to describe difficulties in enacting or integrating gender-related roles in ways that support a person’s well-being and effective interaction with others.
Such difficulties may arise from limited opportunities to develop particular social skills, internal conflict between personal identity and external expectations, or pressure to conform to restrictive gender norms. Gender-role insufficiency should not be equated with gender nonconformity, which is not inherently problematic.
Two forms are commonly distinguished within this framework: gender-role deficit and gender-role atrophy.
See also: Gender Role, Gender-Role Conflict, Gender Nonconformity.
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