Google celebrates International Women’s Day with an interactive doodle

Google started celebrating International Women’s Day on Friday as it has put up an animated doodle on its homepage celebrating the special day.

On the Google homepage you find different coloured Venus symbols (female gender) dancing around above the search bar.

The second ‘O’ in the word Google too is a giant Venus symbol with a play button inside. When you hit play, Google shows you a short video, which is a montage of women from around the globe and all walks of life saying, “Happy International Women’s Day” in their respective languages.

The montage also includes some well-known women like Dora the Explorer, Malala Yousafzai and Asha Bhosle.

"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, 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," Google says explaining the doodle.

The International Women’s Day is celebrated on March 8 every year and the theme of the day is to respect and appreciate women’s achievements.

International Women's Day was first celebrated on March 18, 1911 in four European countries - Austria, Denmark, Germany and Switzerland.

It started out as a socialist political movement in Russia and has since then spread globally. In 1975 the United Nations recognized this day and every year, it comes up with a particular theme for the day. This year, the theme for the day is “Equality for women is progress for all.”

In 2013 Google's Women's Day doodle featured hand-drawn faces of 27 women from around the world.

Google has doodled the International Women's Day on six previous occasions. First in 2005, then consecutively after a four-year break, from 2009 to 2012.