Today’s Google Doodle was drawn by Audrey Zhang: She’s 11, she’s from New York, and she wants to make the world a better place with clean water for everyone.
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Things we <3: Google Doodle honors Dorothy Height, who has been called the “godmother of the civil rights movement.”
Read more about Height at TIME.
An end to babies in briefcases! Join our Google hangout to chat about your favorite stock photo cliches—and to commit to stamping them out.
More info after the jump.
How would American girls’ lives be different if parents were half as concerned with their bodies and twice as intrigued by their minds?
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Today Google celebrates Shakuntala Devi’s 84th birthday. She was popularly known as the “Human Computer”, was a child prodigy, and mental calculator. She passed away on April 21 2013, she was 83 years old. Her achievements include:
- In 1977 in the USA she competed with a computer to see who could calculate the cube root of 188,132,517 faster (she won). That same year, at the Southern Methodist University she was asked to give the 23rd root of a 201-digit number; she answered in 50 seconds. Her answer—546,372,891—was confirmed by calculations done at the U.S. Bureau of Standards by the Univac 1101 computer, for which a special program had to be written to perform such a large calculation.
- On June 18, 1980, she demonstrated the multiplication of two 13-digit numbers 7,686,369,774,870 × 2,465,099,745,779 picked at random by the Computer Department of Imperial College, London. She correctly answered 18,947,668,177,995,426,462,773,730 in 28 seconds. This event is mentioned in the 1982 Guinness Book of Records.
Happy birthday Shakuntala!
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Today Google honors India’s “human computer” Shakuntala Devi, a mathematical prodigy who held a Guinness World Record for her lightning-speed calculations. Here are some other badass women who have been doodled:
Costume designer Edith Head
Celia Cruz, “Queen of Salsa”
Kenyan activist Wangari Maathai, the first black woman and the first environmentalist to win the Nobel Peace Prize.
Rosalind Franklin, the first scientist to photograph DNA
Frida Kahlo, painter
Amelia Earhart, aviation pioneer
Google Loves Lucy
Martha Graham, the “Picasso of choreography”
Alicia Moreau de Justo, Argentinian human rights advocate
Maria Mitchell, first woman astronomer in the U.S.
And in true Lean In spirit, Google honored the working woman this Labor Day.
leanin: Google went glam today to celebrate costume designer Edith Head’s 116th birthday. Here are 9 other badass ladies who have been doodled.
Celia Cruz, “Queen of Salsa”
Kenyan activist Wangari Maathai, the first black woman and the first environmentalist to win the Nobel Peace Prize
Rosalind Franklin, the first scientist to photograph DNA
Frida Kahlo, painter
Amelia Earhart, aviation pioneer
Google Loves Lucy
Martha Graham, the “Picasso of choreography”
Alicia Moreau de Justo, Argentinian human rights advocate
Maria Mitchell, first woman astronomer in the U.S.
And in true Lean In spirit, Google honored the working woman this Labor Day.
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Today Google celebrates “Queen of Salsa” Celia Cruz. Here are 8 other badass ladies who have been doodled.
Kenyan activist Wangari Maathai, the first black woman and the first environmentalist to win the Nobel Peace Prize.
Rosalind Franklin, the first scientist to photograph DNA
Frida Kahlo, painter
Amelia Earhart, aviation pioneer
Google Loves Lucy
Martha Graham, the “Picasso of choreography”
Maria Mitchell, first woman astronomer in the U.S.
And in true Lean In spirit, Google honored the working woman this Labor Day.
(Photo source: Google)
This UN Women ad campaign uses actual Google autofill searches to illustrate pervasive sexist beliefs about women around the world.
Also reminded of differences between Men, According to Google and Women, According to Google.
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Wow.
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she++: The Documentary Trailer (sheplusplus.stanford.edu)
she++ is an empowerment group started at Stanford inspiring women to tap into STEM (science, technology, engineering, mathematics) fields.
"We need to have making, including computer science, shop, etc. as part of the core curriculum from the beginning, not just an optional afterschool thing. Things like First Robotics and all of those great programs need to become mainstream."-
Megan Smith, Vice President of Google[x], responding to How about women in tech by 2020. Will these changes help get more women involved in the industry?
Read The Future According To Megan Smith at Forbes
Today we bring you the third episode of “The Broad Experience,” a podcast dedicated to hashing out the issues facing working women today.
Episode 3 is about “women and technology,” and, more specifically, why fewer women graduate with computer science degrees today than they did in the ’80s and why tech has been a male-dominated industry for so long.
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