{"id":37714,"date":"2016-07-19T06:00:33","date_gmt":"2016-07-19T13:00:33","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/creativemarket.com\/blog\/?p=37714"},"modified":"2024-04-11T03:43:10","modified_gmt":"2024-04-11T10:43:10","slug":"google-gender-equal-emoji","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/creativemarket.com\/blog\/google-gender-equal-emoji","title":{"rendered":"Google Empowers Women With Gender Equal Emoji"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Representation matters &acirc;&euro;&ldquo; especially with emoji. Last year, Apple introduced its racially diverse emoji, and now Google has taken things a step further.<br \/>\nIn en effort to portray the diversity of women&acirc;&euro;&trade;s careers, and empower young girls, the tech giant has proposed <a href=\"https:\/\/googleblog.blogspot.com\/2016\/07\/promoting-gender-equality-through-emoji.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">a new set of emoji<\/a> to the Unicode Technical Committee that portray a wider span of professions for both women and men. Guess what? <a href=\"http:\/\/www.unicode.org\/L2\/L2016\/16181-gender-zwj-sequences.pdf\">11 of them are now approved<\/a>.<br \/>\n<img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-37715\" src=\"https:\/\/d3ui957tjb5bqd.cloudfront.net\/uploads\/2016\/07\/11031042\/gender-emoji-001.gif.webp\" alt=\"\" width=\"680\" height=\"510\"><br \/>\n11? That&#8217;s it? Well, no. There are 11 more templates, but each of those templates has various styles. So let&#8217;s say you want an emoji&Acirc;&nbsp;that&#8217;s a runner. There&#8217;s a female runner&Acirc;&nbsp;and&Acirc;&nbsp;male runner, but then various skin tones are options as well. This means that there will soon be more than 100 new emoji out in the wild,<br \/>\n<img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-37716\" src=\"https:\/\/d3ui957tjb5bqd.cloudfront.net\/uploads\/2016\/07\/11031046\/gender-emoji-002.gif.webp\" alt=\"\" width=\"680\" height=\"510\"><br \/>\nAs if that wasn&#8217;t enough, Unicode is also going to take 33 existing emoji and give them male\/female alternates as well. It&#8217;s a step forward, and although we still have a long way to go, the journey of a thousand miles always starts with a single step.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Representation matters &acirc;&euro;&ldquo; especially with emoji. 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In en effort to portray the diversity of women&acirc;&euro;&trade;s careers, and empower young girls, the tech giant has proposed a new set of emoji to the Unicode Technical Committee that portray a [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":89,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"inline_featured_image":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[34],"tags":[61,72,1187],"topics":[],"class_list":["post-37714","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-creative-inspiration","tag-design","tag-google","tag-emoji"],"acf":[],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO Premium plugin v28.6 (Yoast SEO v28.6) - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-premium-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>Google Empowers Women With Gender Equal Emoji - Creative Market Blog<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/creativemarket.com\/blog\/google-gender-equal-emoji\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"Google Empowers Women With Gender Equal Emoji\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"Representation matters &acirc;&euro;&ldquo; especially with emoji. 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