Now, there are female superheroes, detectives and doctor emojis, to name just a few. There’s also diverse skintones, a greater variety of relationship options and – finally – a bagel emoji.

Tackling the fact that in emoji language, women are largely relegated to the roles of dancer (don’t get us started on the duo wearing leotards and bunny ears), princess, bride or the pink-jumper ...

A bunch of old emoji have also been updated to have gender-neutral options, rather than being specific to a man or women. Emoji that contain multiple people will now let you choose the skin color ...

But one of the starkest changes comes with the addition of a third option for the slew of human-like emoji - from rock star, to zombie, to dancing twins - that's neither the female nor male ...

Updates since then have seen emoji become more and more inclusive, with new sets of female emoji, variations of skin tone and a rainbow flag being added last year. From their humble beginnings ...

He pointed out that men use a wider range of emoji types, while women use emojis more positively ... may also distance themselves from emotional expression in virtual communications,” Dr.