Women
have historically been underrepresented in almost all fields: science, school
curricula, business, politics—and, sadly, doodles. In addition to our continued
effort for doodle diversity and inclusion (see progress on http://google.com/doodles),
today's truly International Women's Day doodle features a host of inspiring
women from around the world, including the President of Lithuania, a brave
Pakistani education activist, an ever-curious explorer, and dozens more. Find
the full list of participants: http://goo.gl/fzUBZn
Women's Day 2014 celebrated with a Google
Doodle
International
Women's Day, which celebrates women's rights across the globe, has been
celebrated with a Google Doodle
Google's doodle to celebrate International Women's Day
Ahead
of International Women's Day on Saturday (March 8), Google's creative team have
created a special doodle to celebrate women around the
world.
The
doodle, which features 27 female chromosomes, will be interactive with a video
featuring over 100 women,including
the President of Lithuania, the brave Pakistani education activist, and an
ever-curious explorer.
With
music provided by the Belgian Congolese vocal group Zap Mama, the doodle celebrates
the "amazing things women around the world have done and continue to
do".
The
doodle is tailored to different countries across the world. In the UK, it
features Camila Batmanghelidjh, who founded the place2be and Kids Company,
caring for 17,000 children and young in London and Katelyn Donnelly, executive
director of the Pearson Affordable Learning Fund.
The team behind the
latest Google Doodle told Wonder Women that trying to come up with a graphic
for International Women’s Day this year completely flummoxed them.
Ryan
Germick, Google doodle’s team leader, said: “International Women’s Day is a
really hard topic. How do you surmise what women represent in a graphic?”
He
explained why the team felt an interactive video would help. “It’s a quick
glimpse of what some women across the world are doing. We’re just going for
people doing great things. A 20-part DVD wouldn’t have scratched the surface.
We decided with the doodle format we could probably do a fun video."
“We
tried to be as sincere as possible," he added. "In certain countries,
it’s OK to give a woman flowers for International Woman’s Day, in other
countries it’s patronising. We tried to concentrate on the universal positive
aspects of it.”
