--- title: Washington Post Women's March Cover Uses Male Symbol description: Washington Post's Express magazine announced news of the Women's March on Washington using the wrong symbol for their cover. canonical: https://time.com/4623692/washington-post-male-symbol-womens-march-inauguration/ author: Megan Lasher article:opinion: false article:content_tier: free article:published_time: 2017-01-05T15:35:49.000Z article:modified_time: 2026-04-13T09:04:18.136Z og:title: The Washington Post Uses Male Symbol for Historic Women’s March og:description: Oops… og:url: https://time.com/4623692/washington-post-male-symbol-womens-march-inauguration/ og:site_name: TIME og:image: https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/blt31d3497bb94b04b2/6988b4808e06016db4468b6b/screen-shot-2017-01-05-at-10-20-30-am.png?branch=production&width=579&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=16:9 og:image:width: 579 og:image:height: 326 og:image:alt: screen-shot-2017-01-05-at-10-20-30-am og:type: article twitter:card: summary_large_image twitter:title: The Washington Post Uses Male Symbol for Historic Women’s March twitter:description: Oops… twitter:image: https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/blt31d3497bb94b04b2/6988b4808e06016db4468b6b/screen-shot-2017-01-05-at-10-20-30-am.png?branch=production&width=579&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=16:9 ---  # The Washington Post Uses Male Symbol to Announce Historic Women’s March > Sponsored content. 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As the Washington _Post’s_ [_Express_](https://twitter.com/WaPoExpress) magazine announced that the [Women’s March on Washington](http://motto.time.com/4618990/planned-parenthood-gloria-steinem-march/) is “expected to be the largest rally linked to the [inauguration](http://motto.time.com/4565558/iud-election-trump-birth-control/),” they made an error: Using the wrong symbol for [their cover](https://twitter.com/WaPoExpress/status/817010323978907648). The cover image, seen above, depicts a group of protestors standing in the formation of the Mars symbol (♂), which is used to represent the male sex. The Venus symbol (♀) is the one that’s associated with the female sex, which is presumably what editors meant to use when writing about a record-breaking women’s march. Whether it was an innocent mistake or just another case of [men trying to make things about them](http://motto.time.com/4433108/men-mansplain-citation-study/) is up to interpretation, but Twitter users were swift to call the publication out on their error: > [](https://twitter.com/nwlilac/status/817014222194360320) > [](https://twitter.com/emmaladyrose/status/817022565692665856) > [](https://twitter.com/michelet/status/817025396143259648) The _Express_ Twitter account deleted their original post announcing the cover and released the corrected version: > [](https://twitter.com/WaPoExpress/status/817033542446252033) > [](https://twitter.com/WaPoExpress/status/817033716593790976) ```json [{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"NewsArticle","@id":"https://time.com/4623692/washington-post-male-symbol-womens-march-inauguration/","mainEntityOfPage":{"@type":"WebPage","@id":"https://time.com/4623692/washington-post-male-symbol-womens-march-inauguration/"},"headline":"The Washington Post Uses Male Symbol to Announce Historic Women’s March","datePublished":"2017-01-05T15:35:49.000Z","dateModified":"2026-04-13T09:04:18.136Z","description":"Oops…","url":"https://time.com/4623692/washington-post-male-symbol-womens-march-inauguration/","keywords":["motto"],"thumbnailUrl":"https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/blt31d3497bb94b04b2/6988b4808e06016db4468b6b/screen-shot-2017-01-05-at-10-20-30-am.png?branch=production&width=1200&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=1200:675&height=675","author":[{"@type":"Person","name":"Megan Lasher","jobTitle":"","url":"https://time.com/author/megan-lasher/"}],"articleSection":"","image":[{"@type":"ImageObject","url":"https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/blt31d3497bb94b04b2/6988b4808e06016db4468b6b/screen-shot-2017-01-05-at-10-20-30-am.png?branch=production&width=1200&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=1200:675&height=675","width":1200,"height":675,"headline":"screen-shot-2017-01-05-at-10-20-30-am","caption":"","creditText":"Washington Post Express","representativeOfPage":true}],"publisher":{"@type":"Organization","name":"Time","url":"https://time.com/","logo":{"@type":"ImageObject","url":"https://time.com/images/logo.png","width":528,"height":156},"foundingDate":"March 3, 1923","sameAs":["https://www.facebook.com/time","https://www.instagram.com/time/?hl=en","https://twitter.com/time","https://www.pinterest.com/timemagazine"]}},{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"BreadcrumbList","itemListElement":[{"@type":"ListItem","position":1,"item":{"@id":"/tag/motto/","name":"motto"}},{"@type":"ListItem","position":2,"item":{"@id":"https://time.com/4623692/washington-post-male-symbol-womens-march-inauguration/","name":"The Washington Post Uses Male Symbol to Announce Historic Women’s March"}}]}] ```