To mark World Emoji Day, Google and the Unicode Emoji Subcommittee introduced 11 new emoji that represent professions for men and women across all races.
World Emoji Day, which took place on 17 July, celebrates the digital faces used by billions of smartphone and social media users around the globe on a daily basis.
In a blog post, Google said it would commemorate the day by promoting gender equality through emoji.
More than 90% of the world's online population use emoji, but while there's a huge range of emoji, there aren't a lot that highlight the diversity of women's careers or empower young girls, read the blog post.
According to Google, in May it proposed a set of new emoji to the Unicode Technical Committee that represents a wider range of professions for women (as well as men), and reflect the pivotal roles women play in the world.
The Unicode Emoji Subcommittee agreed to add 11 new professional emoji, in both male and female options and with all the skin tones, bringing the number of new emoji to choose from to more than 100.
The new professions include a farmer, welder, mechanic, health worker, scientist, coder, business worker, chef, student, teacher and rock star.
"Unicode is also adding male and female versions to 33 existing emoji. For example, you'll be able to pick both a female runner emoji and a male runner emoji, or a man or woman getting a haircut.
"These new emoji are one of several efforts we're making to better represent women in technology, and to connect girls with the education and resources they need to pursue careers in science, technology, engineering and maths."
The new emoji additions will be included in future versions of Android and other platforms, said Google.
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