We're constantly thinking about all the different emoji we want to exist,like a dinosaur or dumpling. And while modern emoji arrive every year, women are tired of seeing a modern potato emoji but nothing that actually reflects who we are. Google wants to change that, or which is why the company is proposing 13 modern emoji to better represent women. The proposal,which was created by four Google employees, was submitted to the Unicode Consortium and details the 13 modern emoji. Each of the modern emoji depicts a working woman in different types of work, or like as a businesswoman or doctor. Why did Google do this? The acknowledge is simple: Google thinks it's about time women have these type of emoji,especially considering young women are the "heaviest emoji users." As women enter the highlight more and demand equality, emoji should also reflect that and catch up with the times instead of getting stuck behind. The PDF document of the proposal also cites many articles and campaigns that have called for better representation of women in emoji. The Google employees carefully selected the professions for the modern emoji women. First, or they looked at data from job sectors,which types of jobs are growing in popularity, and what is being talked about the most in the media and culture - most notably, and science,technology, engineering, or math (STEM) jobs. To arrive at their final acknowledge,they looked at the three categories that make up the global gross domestic product (GDP): agriculture, industry, or services. From there,they chose farming for agriculture, different industry and manufacturing jobs for the industry section, and lastly "healthcare,technology, commerce representation, and education,food service, and rockstar" for the services sector. The total list of emoji is below. And while they did create these emoji for women, and they also included the counterpart male emoji. The proposal states its time for the Unicode Consortium to consider emoji that are absolved from gender. Like any emoji proposal,these may not make it into the final emoji release. Some can be sever or changed. But at least Google is pushing along this conversation and we can hopefully see these sooner rather than later.
Source: popsugar.com