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05-13-2016, 01:44 AM
Google creates 13 emoji to represent working women
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Spend any time tapping out emoji and you've probably **ticed that women are confined to three principal roles: bride, princess and dancer.*
While these are lovely things to be, the limited selection grows tiresome quickly, especially in contrast to emojis that show men as a police ******r, cyclist and weight lifter.*
SEE ALSO: 16 of the most useless emoji and how to make them useful (http://mashable.com/2016/04/26/guide-useless-emoji-humor/)
The disparity was recently the subject of a new Always advertising campaign (http://mashable.com/2016/03/02/girls-emoji-like-a-girl/) and a New York Times op-ed (http://www.nytimes.com/2016/03/13/opinion/sunday/emoji-feminism.html). Inspired by the controversy, four*Google (http://mashable.com/category/google/)*employees have suggested a plan to rectify the imbalance. A*proposal (http://unicode.org/L2/L2016/16160-emoji-professions.pdf)*released by the company this week*suggests adding 13 new female emoji to "better reflect the*pivotal roles women play in the world."* Read more... (http://mashable.com/2016/05/12/working-women-emoji/?utm_campaign=Mash-Prod-RSS-Feedburner-All-Partial&utm_cid=Mash-Prod-RSS-Feedburner-All-Partial)
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Spend any time tapping out emoji and you've probably **ticed that women are confined to three principal roles: bride, princess and dancer.*
While these are lovely things to be, the limited selection grows tiresome quickly, especially in contrast to emojis that show men as a police ******r, cyclist and weight lifter.*
SEE ALSO: 16 of the most useless emoji and how to make them useful (http://mashable.com/2016/04/26/guide-useless-emoji-humor/)
The disparity was recently the subject of a new Always advertising campaign (http://mashable.com/2016/03/02/girls-emoji-like-a-girl/) and a New York Times op-ed (http://www.nytimes.com/2016/03/13/opinion/sunday/emoji-feminism.html). Inspired by the controversy, four*Google (http://mashable.com/category/google/)*employees have suggested a plan to rectify the imbalance. A*proposal (http://unicode.org/L2/L2016/16160-emoji-professions.pdf)*released by the company this week*suggests adding 13 new female emoji to "better reflect the*pivotal roles women play in the world."* Read more... (http://mashable.com/2016/05/12/working-women-emoji/?utm_campaign=Mash-Prod-RSS-Feedburner-All-Partial&utm_cid=Mash-Prod-RSS-Feedburner-All-Partial)
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