Thursday, July 14, 2016

Dozens of new and old emoji embrace gender equality

Emoji

Emoji serve as small visual representations of ourselves. But in order to do this, it helps if they look like us. Just over a year ago, the Unicode Standard added modifiers for skin tone. Now Unicode is encouraging gender equality as well.

Many current emoji depict men doing a wide range of activities, with women performing traditional or stereotypical roles, such as being a princess or wearing a wedding gown.

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Dozens of new and old emoji embrace gender equality was written by the awesome team at Android Police.



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