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Google 'professional women' emoji nominated for Design of the Year

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Newspaper | Telegraph
Date | 16.8.2017
Language | English
Country | UK
Topic Tags | emojis, gender, Google
Summary | The Design Museum in London nominated Google's professional emojis for design of the year. Google introduced a new set of emojis to better reflect women's situation.
Image Description | Images of female emojis.
Image Tags | emojis

So Google wants to make emojis for real women? Here are a few suggestions

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Newspaper | The Guardian
Date | 23.5.2016
Language | English
Country | UK
Topic Tags | emojis, gender
Summary | The available emojis are a little traditional and stereotypical. Google is now asking for more female emojis that reflect reality. The author of the article has a few suggestions regarding new female emojis (e.g. resting bitch face, mansplain strain, empowerment batteries, Netflix and chilled by my own inertia, menstruation magician, etc.)
Image Description | Images of 6 alternative female emojis
Image Tags | emojis, female(s)

Google proposes new set of female emojis to promote equality

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Newspaper | The Guardian
Date | 11.5.2016
Language | English
Country | UK
Topic Tags | diversity, emojis, gender
Summary | Google proposed new emojis representing gender diversity. The new set of emojis includes for instance female engineers, chemists, plumbers, and farmers. Millions of people around the world use emojis, so it is important to represent people accurately.
Image Description | Images of the new set of female emojis.
Image Tags | emojis, female(s)

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