update picture thisbefore july 2016all professional emojis like detectivesleuth cop paramedic were exclusively male activities like rock climbing biking basketball surfing were performed by male emojisfemale emojis were flamencosalsa dancer princess bride haircut recipient bunnyeared dancers the only career choices available to womenso up until 2016 young women the heaviest users of emoji not us unicode said that only had the choices available to disney princesses precirca 2009 no visualiser for female strength none for professional or academic brilliance as a new york times article demanded how was there space for both a bento box and a single fried coconut shrimp and yet women were restricted to a smattering of tired beautycentric roles its the flamenco dancer i find i send most often when a friend has achieved greatness flamenco i sent recently when a friend sold her book for 50000 flamenco i sent when another secured a grant to conduct research in ireland flamenco flamenco flamencothat exasperation grew if tech could design no good facepalm or shrug emojis as female anyone else see a problem here tech could design female emojis for what women were actually good at doing a girl emojis video by a brands likeagirl campaign was viewed more than 18 million times and united women on social media with calls for more representative female emoji michelle obama tweeted requesting the creation of a girl studying emoji to help empower girlsas complaints that the age of tech couldnt represent women living in the age of godknowswhat got louder unicode greenlit a new set of workplacerepresentative emojis which had been proposed by google a paper by the unicode emoji subcommittee a legit thing explaining the additions also had some interesting notesthere is also a lack of emoji representing professions and roles and the few that are present do not provide for both genders thus sleuth or spy is typically displayed as male while person frowning is typically displayed as femalesome design considerations explained in most cases hair length and tweaks to facial features were the only changes per colour culturally biased female hues were purposely not selectedso july 2016 enter the womencandowhateverthey want emoji11 new professional emojis in both male and female options with all skin tones farmer welder mechanic health worker scientist coder business worker chef student teacher rockstarmale and female versions to 33 existing emojis so you could pick a female runner or a man getting a haircutno new emoji was going to have an exclusively male or female variation2015 people of colour samesex couplesin 2015 the first big step was taken in emoji diversity when unicode introduced skintone modifiers after complaints that the variety of smartphone users didnt see themselves reflected in the characters they were texting a unicode document also observed people all over the world want to have emoji that reflect more human diversity especially for skin tone the unicode emoji characters are meant to be generic yet following the precedents set by the original japanese carrier images they are often