Google is presenting a special video on its search page on Sunday to commemorate International Women’s Day. 

The 55-second animated video shows avatars of women of various ethnicities and professions in rotating fashion.

According to CNET, The Doodle was a collaboration of Zurich-based guest animators Marion Willam and Daphne Abderhalden from the Drastik creative agency and Oslo- and London-based guest artists Julie Wilkinson and Joyanne Horscroft from Makerie Studio. 

Google includes a link to a number of lists on a portal titled Women in Culture, with a description that reads: “From innovative artists and pioneering scientists, to the women who campaigned for universal suffrage and social equality”.

The lists range from The Trailblazers, which features Iraqi-British architect Zaha Hadid, American scientist Rachel Carson and Japanese painter Uemura Shoen; 11 Women Who Changed the World, which includes African-American journalist Ida B. Wells, Indian dancer Rukmini Devi Arundale and Egyptian pilot Lotfia El Nadi; and Pop Culture Icons, which includes Brazilian performer Carmen Miranda, British model Naomi Campbell and African-American sculptor Edmonia Lewis.

There are also sections depicting the achievements, including The Game Changers in sports, the women of NASA, 10 Inspiring Latinas Who’ve Made History, women who fight for civil rights, female artists and women in fashion.

International Women’s Day celebrates the social, economic, cultural and political achievements of women. The first IWD gathering occurred in 1911 in Austria, Denmark, Germany and Switzerland.

According to the International Women’s Day website, women’s oppression and inequality was spurring women to become more vocal and active in campaigning for change. At the second International Conference of Working Women in Copenhagen in 1910, Clara Zetkin from the Social Democratic Party of Germany tabled the idea of an International Women’s Day to press for their demands to unanimous approval.

The following years saw women in Europe rallying to express women’s solidarity. In 1975, the United Nations celebrated IWD for the first time.

In a statement for this year’s IWD, UN Women executive director Phumzile Mlambo-Ngcuka highlights 2020 as the year for gender equality and calls on everyone to tackle the persistent barriers against gender equality. (wng)

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