Representing two planets, iron, copper and a couple of Olympian gods, the classical symbols for male and female pack a lot of meaning into a few squiggly lines. The symbols themselves are ancient ...

She didn’t say why---Monson and Luce assumed it would decorate an album cover---but said he wanted the icon to fuse the astrologically inspired Mars-male and Venus-female symbols, and he wanted ...

In fact, the updated symbol is already live on the Facebook ... a tiny but irritating difference between the old male and female icons. . "After a little sleuthing I determined that the chip ...

Why not have male and female icons together to be more inclusive, or use a gender-neutral icon, or even have different icons appear depending on the gender of the user? Another element to keep in ...

The symbol looked like a hybrid of the male and female gender symbols, but it was unpronounceable. It also happened to have been the name of Prince’s 1992 album, which was unofficially ...

"That really drove his intent to create this icon." The couple ... in the end it's a symbol that says a lot about him," she said. "You look at the male and female and combine into two; it's ...

A few weeks more and the icons had made their way to apps and interfaces throughout the service. It wasn't just male and female icons that are getting the treatment, either. People in the Americas ...