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Today, Google is celebrating powerful women who fought for women’s rights and gender equality. Their International Women’s Day Google Doodle features 13 pioneering women who helped shape our world.

According to Google, each woman is seen through the imagination of a little girl as her grandmother reads her a bedtime story. The tale features activists, painters, dancers, journalists, scientists and athletes who all had one very important thing in common: they have and will continue to inspire for generations to come. The slideshow includes:

  • Ida Wells (African-American journalist and civil rights activist)
  • Lotfia El Nadi (Egypt’s first female pilot)
  • Frida Kahlo (Mexican painter and feminist icon)
  • Lina Bo Bardi (Brazilian modernist architect)
  • Olga Skorokhodova (Soviet scientist who researched deaf and blind communication)
  • Miriam Makeba (South African singer and civil rights activist)
  • Sally Ride (America’s first female astronaut to go into space)
  • Halet Çambel (Turkish archaeologist and first Muslim woman to compete in the Olympics)
  • Ada Lovelace (English mathematician, writer and world’s first computer programmer)
  • Rukmini Devi (Indian classical dancer and choreographer and animal rights activist)
  • Cecilia Grierson (Argentine physician and first woman to receive a medical degree in Argentina)
  • Lee Tai-young (Korea’s first female lawyer and judge)
  • Suzanne Lenglen (French tennis player who revolutionized women’s tennis)

International Women’s Day is celebrated March 8 and celebrates how far women have come and how far they still have to go in the fight for gender parity. According to their website, the day “is all about unity, celebration, reflection, advocacy and action – whatever that looks like globally at a local level. But one thing is for sure, International Women’s Day has been occurring for well over a century – and continue’s to grow from strength to strength.” This year, International Women’s Day was also paired with A Day Without A Woman, which shows the importance of human rights for all.

See how social media reacted to the Google Doodle below:

Social Media Reacts to International Women’s Day Google Doodle

What are your thoughts on today’s Google Doodle for International Women’s Day? Who would you have liked to see pictured? Sound off in the comments section below!