Google proposes 13 new emojis representing professional women

It seems like the next iteration of Unicode could include new

emojis

characters representing

women

in 13 different professions. The emojis were introduced by 4 Google employees - Rachel Been, Nicole Bleuel, Agustin Fonts and Mark Davis in a presentation to the Unicode Consortium. For those unaware, the Unicode Consortium is a non-profit corporation that approves emojis among other tasks such as developing, maintaining, and promoting software internationalization standards.

The Google employees say that these 13 emoji characters will increase the representation of women via emoji. These would also help promote gender equality. “The global women’s equality movement is growing, so the time to create these

emoji

is now. All around the world, gender inequality is a focus,” said the presentation. “Given the fact that women are the most frequent emoji users, and that they span a wide professional spectrum not yet reflected in the current set of emoji, we want to help address this pressing matter of equality.”


The 13 emojis represent women in business, healthcare, science, education, technology, industry, farming, food service, and music sectors. They represent the women working as accountants, office workers, clerks, managers, doctors, nurses, dentists, scientists, chemists, software engineers, chefs, cooks, rockstars and more.

“To make our final selection, we looked at the primary, secondary, and tertiary categories that compose the total global GDP — Agriculture, Industry and Services — and further broke them down categorically based on global popularity, growth, and overall representation,” said the presentation paper.


The presentation also cited a research by AdWeek suggesting that 92% of online consumers use emoji. Out of those almost 78% are those women who frequently use emojis. Not just women-only emojis, but some emojis for men were introduced by Google as well.