Woman technologist: light skin tone Emoji

People

A woman with light skin sitting in front of a laptop computer, appearing to be actively typing or coding. This emoji highlights women working in fields related to software engineering and computer programming.

Usage Context

Used to discuss professional work in tech, software development, or personal projects like building a website. It is frequently sent by people working in STEM or shared during discussions about workplace culture. It pairs naturally with related tech icons like 💻 or ⌨️.

History

The base woman technologist emoji was added to the Unicode standard in 2016 as part of a push to improve gender representation in professional roles. The version with the light skin tone was implemented shortly after via the ZWJ (Zero Width Joiner) sequence system, which allows users to apply specific skin tone modifiers to human-based characters.

Details

Glyph

👩🏻‍💻

Unicode

U+1F469 U+1F3FB U+200D U+1F4BB

Shortcode

:emoji_u1f469_1f3fb_200d_1f4bb:

HTML Entity

&#xD83D;&#xDC69;&#xD83C;&#xDFFB;‍&#xD83D;&#xDCBB;

Specifications

Vendor Microsoft

Category People

Subcategory person-role

Unicode Version 6.0

Emoji Version 1.0

License MIT

Microsoft Fluent License

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