Woman scientist

A woman in a lab coat and goggles, standing for women scientists, researchers and engineers.

Women in STEM use it on their own posts, and it appears in campaigns that encourage girls into science. It also fits any “I ran the numbers” moment from a friend who checks the facts. Pair with 🧬 🧫 or 🔭 to name the field.

Facts

Woman scientist 👩‍🔬 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 🔬 microscope. 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_scientist:. People also look for it with words like “biologist”, “chemist”, “engineer”, or “mathematician”.

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