MENLO PARK (Web Desk) – Facebook has finally put ladies first. The social network just revealed itself as a card-carrying feminist, as many eagle-eyed Facebook users may have already noticed the change to the little ‘friend request’ symbol.
If not, then surprise – Facebook in a bona fide feminist.
The new image (which appears on the top right corner of the homepage) now shows the small female figure in line with the male, rather than behind him.
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It might be a minuscule change, but the story behind it gives users the warm and fuzzies.
Caitlin Winner, Facebook’s design manager, reveals that on the previous icon or ‘glyph’ the woman ‘had a little chip in her shoulder’, while the man was symmetrical.
She said: “As a woman, educated at a women’s college, it was hard not to read into the symbolism of the current icon; the woman was quite literally in the shadow of the man.”
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She also described the female icon’s hair as a ‘Darth Vader-like helmet’, so Ms Winner decided to give the lady a makeover – now she has a pretty fancy new ‘slightly more shapely bob’.
