Google had a hard time coming up with a doodle for its homepage to celebrate International Women’s Day, according to the UK’s Telegraph.
The doodle features 27 female chromosomes and an interactive video that includes more than 100 women doing awesome things all over the globe. Each region’s doodle will differ slightly to cater to each area and make sure local heroines are spotlighted.
As the Telegraph reports, 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?”
The team did a pretty good job at including all different types of activists. Transgender advocate Janet Mock is featured as a “Trans woman rights activist and author.” This follows Mock’s interview fiasco with Piers Morgan, who ignorantly refused to see Mock’s position and continues to say she was a man until her gender reassignment surgery at 18. Mock has stated numerous times that although she was born male she has known she is—and identified as—female since very early on in life.
Google didn’t limit themselves to real-life heroines, adding Dora the Explorer, the female character from the children’s show of the same name, to its list. While we couldn’t believe this at first, we quickly realized that young girls need role models they can relate to, not just look up to. Dora goes exploring in every episode and shows kids that learning along the way is super cool. She also defeats Swiper the Fox in every episode, proving that girls are strong, too.
The doodle team may have feared that it wouldn’t encompass everything needed for a proper International Women’s Day recognition, but from the looks of it they did just fine.