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# Connections Management

As part of Maica's `Connection` feature, you can manage different types of `Connections` and their reciprocal settings. 

To get started with configuring `Connections`, simply click the `Edit` button at the bottom of the screen and complete the following settings:

* **Gender Field**: this field specifies the gender of the Contact for the purposes of creating a reciprocal `Connection`. For example, if you create a `Connection` from a "Mother" Contact record to a female Contact record, Maica creates a reciprocal `Connection` of "Daughter", as opposed to "Son".

<figure><img src="/files/oWd4QTcWESS6FkNiNSNJ" alt=""><figcaption><p>The Gender field</p></figcaption></figure>

Just below the Gender field, you will find all available gender field values for the selected Salesforce field. **Maica** uses the settings in these boxes to determine which values in the selected Gender field are Male and which are Female. Unselected values will be associated with Neutral gender.

<figure><img src="/files/YkFuQv3ZmRIZQxYLjm6z" alt=""><figcaption><p>Gender Selection</p></figcaption></figure>

The last step is to configure the `Reciprocal Settings`; **Maica** uses these settings in to determine reciprocal connections. If Salesforce can determine the contact's gender (based on the user-defined Gender field), then the reciprocal connection is created using the value that matches the gender. If no Gender is specified, then Neutral value will be used.

<figure><img src="/files/l6KxHSzmwRcynypi7E7i" alt=""><figcaption><p>Reciprocal Settings</p></figcaption></figure>