INCLUDES

Charm and necklace chain in a black velvet jewelry bag. 

You can also purchase just the charm alone to use on your own cord or chain.

MEASUREMENTS
The charm is about 1" tall x 1/2" wide (26x14mm)
The necklace chain is offered in your choice of length from 16" to 50" (40cm to 127cm)

MATERIALS
The charm is an antiqued silver zinc alloy casting. The necklace chain is hypo-allergenic Stainless steel. 


ABOUT
A gender symbol is a pictogram or glyph used to represent either biological sex or sociological gender (a terminological distinction originating in 1950s sociology) in either biology, medicine, genealogy or selective breeding, or in sociology, gender politics and identity politics.

Pictograms used to indicate male and female public toilets became widely used beginning in the 1960s.

Biology and medicine

The two standard sex symbols are the Mars symbol (often considered to represent a shield and spear) for male and Venus symbol (often considered to represent a bronze mirror with a handle) for female, derived from astrological symbols, denoting the classical planets Mars and Venus, respectively. They were first used to denote the effective sex of plants (i.e. sex of individual in a given crossbreed, since most plants are hermaphroditic) by Carl Linnaeus in 1751.

They are still used in scientific publications to indicate the sex of an individual, for example of a patient. Pedigree charts published in scientific papers now more commonly use a square for male and a circle for female.