Rights
campaigner Malala Yousafzai features in doodle providing 'a glimpse' of what
some women across the world are doing
Google is
celebrating International Women's Day with a homepage doodle featuring footage
of women from around the world including the education rights campaigner Malala
Yousafzai and the British businesswoman and charity worker, Camila
Batmanghelidjh.
The search
engine's creative team put together the doodle, which features 27 female
chromosomes and a video package with the faces of more than 100 women as well
as a musical soundtrack from the Belgian-Congolese vocal group Zap Mama. Others
who make an appearance include the President of Lithuania, Dalia Grybauskaitė.
The doodle
was designed by Google with the intention of providing "a glimpse" of
what some women across the world are doing and to focus in a positive way on
their lives.
International
Women's Day has been observed since in the early 1900s, a time of turbulence in
the industrialized world that saw booming population growth and the rise of
radical ideologies. The first National Woman's Day (NWD) in the US was observed
across the United States on 28 February, 1909.
Clara
Zetkin, a German Social Democrat, tabled the idea of an International Women's
Day in 1910 during an international conference on women's rights in Copenhagen.
The day is
being marked in a variety of ways in countries around the world, from
Afghanistan to Zambia. In the UK male presenters are to be banished from BBC
Radio 1 for 39 hours this weekend to celebrate International Women's Day.
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