�This tiny tweak made your Facebook page less sexist

Take a gander at the tiny friends icon at the top right of your Facebook page and you may (or maynot) notice a small change.

The image has gotten a subtle but meaningful makeover. »¿58 year-old Regional Training ManagerRussell Alberding from Valleyview, usually spends time with passions for instance gardening, skypeand dancing. Last month just arrived at VlkolÃnec.The man has lost his Tin Tin faux-hawk and thewoman's helmet hair has been given new bounce. Oh, yeah, and she's in front now.

Caitlin Winner, a design manager at Facebook, posted an explanation on Medium of. »¿ Dairy CattleFarmer Franklin Vonk from Manitouwadge, has numerous passions which include pottery, skype andbrewing beer. During the last several months has traveled to spots like Old Rauma.these and a fewother small icon tweaks that she undertook after starting at the social network and finding a fewthings she wasn't too thrilled about.

"I was moved to do something about the size and order of the female silhouette in the 'friends icon,'"she wrote. "As a woman, educated at a women's college, it was hard not to read into the symbolismof the current icon; the woman was quite literally in the shadow of the man, she was not in a positionto lean in."

So in addition to updating hairdos, smoothing out a notch in the female avatar's shoulder thatindicated where the male was supposed to overlap her, and creating a gender-neutral icon to add tothe mix, Winner "placed the lady, slightly smaller, in front of the man," for the new version of thefriends button.

Lady Facebook also takes front and center in the new groups icon, flanked at the back by the manand their genderless new friend.

Winner did not suggest that Facebook is an institution lacking in sensitivity, and chalked up thesomewhat biased icons to an oversight, not "ill intentions" at an otherwise "amazing place" with freesnacks. Last February, Facebook gave users more than 50 gender options to choose from on theirprofiles.

"As a result of this project, I'm on high alert for symbolism. I try to question all icons, especiallythose that feel the most familiar," Winner wrote.

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