There are currently no emoji for people who don't identify as male or female — but that could change very soon. Unicode's draft emoji list for new emoji releases contains three gender inclusive emoji, ...
Following a proposal by Google earlier this year, the Unicode Technical Committee today approved a new set of emoji that aims to improve gender equality. More than 90 percent of the world’s online ...
The Unicode Consortium announced plans (PDF) to support new emoji aimed at promoting gender equality—11 new "professional" emoji will depict both men and women performing different jobs, and there ...
Apple has banned guns from its latest update. The company has replaced the highly-realistic revolver that has long been in the emoji keyboard with a water pistol. The update comes alongside a range of ...
The patriarchy has infiltrated your keyboard. As Slack engineer Erica Baker pointed out on Twitter, when you type "CTO" into iMessage, the predictive emoji feature suggests you use a male worker emoji ...
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A group of Google employees are proposing a new set of emojis meant to convey a wider array of gender diversity in the workplace. The Google workers have submitted their ideas to the Unicode ...