With the view to increase the representation of women in emoji, Google has proposed a new set of emoji that symbolises wide range of professions for women.
In a proposal submitted to Unicode Consortium, a body that standardises emoji and ensures cross-platform compatibility, Google stated that the goal here is to highlight "the diversity of women's careers and empowering girls everywhere."
The 13 new emoji proposed by Google depict women across a representative sample of professions such as business, healthcare, science, technology, education, farming and music.
"To make our final selection (of emoji), we looked at the primary, secondary, and tertiary categories that compose global GDP — agriculture, industry and services — and further broke them down categorically based on global popularity, growth, and overall representation. We additionally added in concepts from popular media campaigns such as #likeagirl, global influencers, and the ongoing support to promote women in STEM. The final determination of the new emoji set was a combination of these above data categories," said Google.
From the primary sector, farming was selected, for the secondary sector, Google chose a representation of industry and manufacturing, and for the tertiary sector, they included healthcare, technology, business representation (lawyer, financial worker, etc), education, food service, and an aspirational rockstar.
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