A team of Google employees have recommended 13 new emojis to better represent
professional women.The team forwarded a new set of emoji that
represents a wide range of professions for women and men with a goal of
highlighting the diversity of women's careers and empowering girls everywhere, to
the Unicode Consortium (http://unicode.org/consortium/consort.html),the
body responsible for approving and standardising emojis.
The new emojis are for heathcare workers,
scientists, businesspeople and even rock stars. The professions were chosen
based on what would best represent the modern workforce. While "the
urgency to improve the representation of women" was a key concern, each
new professional emoji also came with an associated male counterpart.
According to Google, “These emoji
can have a positive impact by depicting women across a representative sample of
professions, with the hope of empowering young women and better reflect the
pivotal roles women play in the world.”
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