More importantly, it reflected the idea that having this mixture of qualities could be a good thing, and was associated with flexibility and better adjustment.
People are biased towards a fairer skin colour, thus a huge boom of fairness creams is prevalent.
Androgyny depicts the personality traits of both the sexes; those traits that are universally associated with the males and the females.
In fact, studies that have investigated the characteristics of women mathematicians have noticed a combination of masculine and feminine traits such as individualism, courage, concentration, but also emotion or interest in art.