All women's shoe emoji have high heels. This striking campaign wants to change that

There’s an implicit gender bias lurking in your emoji keyboard which you might not have even noticed. 

There are currently three women’s shoe emoji, but all three of them have high heels. One Silicon Valley-based woman wants to change this. Independent arts publicist Floriane Hutchinson launched the #IWearFlats campaign to add a women’s flat shoe emoji to our keyboards. Her proposal is currently up for discussion at the Unicode Consortium Emoji Subcommittee. 

Flip to your emoji keyboard and scroll until you reach the clothing options. You’ll notice five shoe emoji; a brown “man’s shoe,” a gender-neutral trainer or sneaker, and three high-heeled women’s shoes. Hutchinson says this absence of a flat women’s shoe emoji is problematic.  Read more…

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Source: Mashable | All women's shoe emoji have high heels. This striking campaign wants to change that