More than 90 percent of the world’s online population use emoji. But while there’s a huge range of emoji, there aren’t a lot that highlight the diversity of women’s careers, or empower young girls.
Google: Promoting gender equality through emoji
More than 90 percent of the world’s online population use emoji. But while there’s a huge range of emoji, there aren’t a lot that highlight the diversity of women’s careers, or empower young girls.
The amount of cis bias in that link is disgusting. The police “man” is not a man at all. Sure, she was born with—and still has—male genitalia, but she identifies as female, except on Tuesdays, when she’s genderfluid. It’s time we respect xer choices.
Not sure why women are expected to have long hair (or men have short). Seems not only sexist but culturally biased. In many cultures men have long hair, or women have short, or it is just mixed.
But while there’s a huge range of emoji, there aren’t a lot that
highlight the diversity of women’s careers, or empower young girls.
Yeah, that’s what’s keeping women back, when and where they’re being kept back.
Lack of emojis that highlight their career choices or nebulously “empower” young girls.
(Now, Google is right about the biases of the existing Emoji set; they reflect “traditional Western gender-career mappings”, so to speak.
The correct way to fix this is not “roll out new inspiring feminine emoji with careers like welder and scientist”.
It’s to roll out every career-ish emoji in both genders, in every case.)