Woman mechanic

A woman with a wrench, used for women in the skilled trades: mechanics, plumbers, electricians and repair techs.

Women in trade jobs use it to represent their own work, and it shows up in posts that encourage girls into the trades. Anyone can send it after fixing a leak, a bike chain or a wobbly shelf without calling for help.

Facts

Woman mechanic 👩‍🔧 is an emoji in the people and body category, under person role. It became part of the emoji standard in Emoji 4.0, released in 2016. It is a sequence that joins 👩 woman and 🔧 wrench. Devices that do not know the sequence show those emoji side by side. It comes in five skin tones, from light to dark. On GitHub, Slack and other apps you can type it as :woman_mechanic:. People also look for it with words like “electrician”, “mechanic”, “plumber”, or “tradesperson”.

Made of

👩+🔧=👩‍🔧

Timeline

1. 2016Added to the emoji standard (Emoji 4.0)
2. 2016Arrived with five skin tones (Emoji 4.0)

Design history

Google Noto Emoji images: Apache 2.0. Twemoji graphics by X Corp and contributors: CC-BY 4.0.

people & body · Emoji 4.0