Emojis are replacing Barbies as the battleground where the fight over the portrayal of women is being waged.<\/p>\n
A group of Google employees is pushing for 13 new emojis to be approved with a \u201cgoal of highlighting the diversity of women\u2019s careers and empower girls everywhere,\u201d according to their proposal submitted to the Unicode Consortium this week.<\/p>\n
\u201cNo matter where you look, women are gaining visibility and recognition as never before,\u201d the developers said in a its proposal. \u201cIsn\u2019t it time that emoji also reflect the reality that women play a key role in every walk of life and in every profession?\u201d<\/p>\n
As of now, emojis depicting women are overwhelmingly stereotypical: There\u2019s nail painting and hair grooming; there\u2019s flamenco dancing and twin burlesque bunnies. Men, meanwhile, are cops and doctors and athletes, as Always pointed out as part of their \u201cLike a Girl\u201d campaign. Google\u2019s proposal includes doctors, farmers, graduates and professors for both sexes. There\u2019s even a David Bowie tribute emoji.<\/p>\n
Unicode Consortium is currently mulling which emojis will be allowed in its next batch, due to arrive on people\u2019s phones in mid-2017. However, the Googlers might have an advantage since the Consortium\u2019s president, Mark Davis, is also a Google employee.<\/p>\n
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Source: Digiday<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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