Lee: Standard Emoji Set Offers Only Four Gendered Roles for Women
Jenny Lee · a16z Podcast | Not all Network Effects Are Created Equal · Jan 2, 2019 · at 37:56
Jenny Lee discusses gender representation disparities in the standard Unicode emoji set during a conversation on digital communication standards in 2016.
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“Because one of the big problems right now on, on the existing set of women as represented by emoji is like, there are only like really four roles for women to play compared to men. You know, men, you can be a sleuth or you can be, you know, a policeman. You can be sort of a medical worker. You can even be Santa Claus. But as a woman, the four things you can be as a role are basically bride, princess, dancer, playboy bunny.”
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