Google proposes new set of female emojis to promote equality

[Hum]

Google employees have proposed a new set of emojis aimed at promoting gender equality in the workplace, including cartoon female engineers, chemists, plumbers and farmers.
The Google team presented the designs of 13 new emojis on Tuesday at the Unicode Consortium, a Silicon Valley not-for-profit group that runs an “emoji subcommittee” overseeing the creation of new emojis.
“No matter where you look, women are gaining visibility and recognition as never before,” the four Google workers wrote in their proposal. “Isn’t it time that emoji also reflect the reality that women play a key role in every walk of life and in every profession?”
As emojis have exploded in popularity in recent years, there have been ongoing debates about diversity in the available images, prompting the creation of more racially diverse faces as well as same-sex emojis.

 

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[DConnell Member]

I never really thought of the majority of emojis as being male or female - they were just generic people faces.

[Torolol]

when they first appeared I always thought they are related to PacMan & Mrs.Pacman

[Hum]

Will the female icons get paid as much as males ?