A gender-neutral health worker, part of Unicode's 2018 'profession emoji' rollout designed after criticism that emoji only let women be depicted as princesses or brides while men got doctors and scientists. It's used to represent nurses, doctors, and medical staff broadly, and saw a massive usage spike during the COVID-19 pandemic as a tribute to frontline workers. Trivia: this whole profession-emoji initiative (2018) was proposed by Google specifically to correct gender-role stereotyping baked into the original emoji set — a rare case of a tech company explicitly citing social critique as the design rationale.
Keywords: doctor, health, healthcare, nurse, therapist, worker