Thanks for the hint but I am not entirely sure which icon you are referring to unfortunately.
Is it an icon provided by the application? Otherwise, this is an Android phone (LineageOS to be specific) and I am not sure there would be an Apple sharing icon on it.
While I do not doubt this happening, nor it being sexist at its core, I find no mention of it on the linked wikipedia article.
EDIT: Ah, it actually links to a now-defunct british spacecentre article in the original TIL with the following quote:
and there’s an '82 NYT article mentioning it here