Google stands for gender equality with these working women emoji

A while ago we were speaking about how artist Markus Prime made a statement: representation matters. He did an amazing job drawing black women as superheroes, and Google has decided that it’s time women are represented in more work fields, apart from soaring the sky in search of villains!

That is why they have submitted a bunch of women career emojis to Unicode, and 11 of them have been already approved. This means that we will probably get female cook, female programmer and female weightlifter emojis in the future. There’s little representation of women in technology, and Google is working in many projects to change this.

They have also revamped some emojis so that men get representation, too: there’s no male haircut emoji, nor a boy saying “no” with his arms. The initiative has been pretty successful already and Unicode has compromised to revamp 33 existing emoji to give them male/female alternatives.

Learn more about this project on Google’s blog.