{"id":2564,"date":"2016-05-13T12:38:35","date_gmt":"2016-05-13T12:38:35","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/staffblogs.le.ac.uk\/socscilibrarians\/?p=2564"},"modified":"2024-11-26T17:49:56","modified_gmt":"2024-11-26T17:49:56","slug":"are-emojis-sexist","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/staffblogs.le.ac.uk\/socscilibrarians\/2016\/05\/13\/are-emojis-sexist\/","title":{"rendered":"Are emojis sexist?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\"font-family: 'Calibri',sans-serif;font-size: 11pt\"><span style=\"color: #000000\">Certainly\u00a0 Google engineers think so as they recently submitted a proposal to Unicode: s<\/span><a href=\"http:\/\/unicode.org\/L2\/L2016\/16160-emoji-professions.pdf\"><span style=\"color: #0000ff\">ee Expanding Emoji Professions: Reducing Gender Inequality<\/span><\/a><span style=\"color: #000000\"> for\u00a0 13 proposed designs to show professional women and reflect the real world of women in work.\u00a0 This follows previous criticisms expressed in the <\/span><a href=\"http:\/\/www.huffingtonpost.co.uk\/2016\/03\/02\/like-a-girl-always-advert-emoji_n_9252554.html\"><span style=\"color: #0000ff\">Huffington Post in 2016<\/span><\/a><span style=\"color: #000000\"> which form part of the campaign #like a girl marketing campaign.\u00a0 View their online video and details of the campaign in <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/www.marketingweek.com\/2016\/03\/02\/pg-hits-out-at-stereotypical-emojis-in-new-likeagirl-push\/\"><span style=\"color: #0000ff\">Marketing Week<\/span><\/a><\/span><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Certainly\u00a0 Google engineers think so as they recently submitted a proposal to Unicode: see Expanding Emoji Professions: Reducing Gender Inequality for\u00a0 13 proposed designs to show professional women and reflect the real world of women in work.\u00a0 This follows previous criticisms expressed in the Huffington Post in 2016 which form part of the campaign #like [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":89,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11,12,272,15],"tags":[52,241,71,99],"class_list":["post-2564","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-marketing","category-media-and-communication","category-social-media","category-sociology","tag-feminism","tag-media-and-communication","tag-new-media","tag-women"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/staffblogs.le.ac.uk\/socscilibrarians\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2564","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/staffblogs.le.ac.uk\/socscilibrarians\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/staffblogs.le.ac.uk\/socscilibrarians\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/staffblogs.le.ac.uk\/socscilibrarians\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/89"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/staffblogs.le.ac.uk\/socscilibrarians\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2564"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/staffblogs.le.ac.uk\/socscilibrarians\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2564\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2565,"href":"https:\/\/staffblogs.le.ac.uk\/socscilibrarians\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2564\/revisions\/2565"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/staffblogs.le.ac.uk\/socscilibrarians\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2564"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/staffblogs.le.ac.uk\/socscilibrarians\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2564"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/staffblogs.le.ac.uk\/socscilibrarians\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2564"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}