Google Designs Emojis Depicting Professional Women

                         

Image caption Google is suggesting 13 new emojis depicting women in a range of jobs 

               

Google engineers have designed a set of 13 emojis that they say better represent women in the world of work.The designs have been presented to the Unicode consortium, the body that approves and standardises emojis.

 

The team said that they hoped the samples would "empower young women (the heaviest emoji users) and better reflect the pivotal roles women play in the world".
 
The term - which means picture (e) and character (moji) in Japanese - was added to the Oxford English Dictionary in 2013.
 
The team of four Google employees cited a New York Times op-ed called "Emoji Feminism" as the motivation for its new designs.