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These are all the new female emoji we might be getting

These are all the new female emoji we might be getting

Emoji is the fastest growing language in the world, and as such it's been pointed out time and time again that the characters need a significantly more female friendly upgrade.

At present there are far fewer male looking characters than female ones - and while the male emojis are doctors, police officers and athletes, the female ones are mostly stereotypes such as princesses and playboy bunnies, and a lot of them are pink.

Now Google has joined calls for more diverse and fair female emoji: Wired reports that in a presentation the company made to Unicode, who write the scripts for the popular characters, the internet giant wants to see:

Our proposal is to create a new set of emoji that represents a wide range of professions for women and men with a goal of highlighting the diversity of women’s careers and empowering girls everywhere.

As such, they've come up with designs for 13 new professional women emojis. The new designs include a surgeon, builder, university graduate, busineswoman, and even a rockstar:

Picture: Google/Unicode

UniCode has said vague things about coding gender neutral or female-appearing characters in the past, but has not specified whether they're going to follow through with the idea.

Since Google has offered to help, it's watch this space we guess.

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