This Google doodle made for International Women’s day celebrates the achievements of various women all over the world.
By clicking the play button on the doodle, a multi-layered, a paler mandala animation video comes up created by two females: Julie Wilkinson and Joyanne Horscroft of Makerie Studio and animators Marion Willam and Daphne Abderhalden, according to a news release.
The mandala’s black-and-white inner layer depicts women around the world from the late 1800s to the 1930s. The middle layer reflects women from the 1950s to the 1980s, which Google describes as “a landmark era in the wake of pushes for gender equality and rapid changes to the status quo.”
The outer layer symbolizes women from the 1990s to the modern day, documenting what Google says are the results of progress made over more than 100 years of women’s rights movements.
“It pays tribute to breaking barriers from former cultural and gender roles, as women continue to question, reclaim and redefine ideas about the roles women take on in society,” Google says.
The doodle portrays women, from various such as educators and gymnasts to pilots and homemakers.
“There was so much thought put into each of the 35 characters and how they were placed within the mandala,” said Abderhalden, who works at DRASTIK GmbH in Zurich, in a Q&A on Google’s site. “Starting from the center, it walks us through different time periods and depicts the issues women were facing in these times. Our biggest takeaway from the artwork is that we were reminded of how women fought and evolved through history so we can live the free life we live today.”
The first International Women’s Day was celebrated by members of the women’s movement in Russia on March 8, 1913, to peacefully protest World War I.
International Women’s Day is given a theme every year by the United Nations — with this year been “I am Generation Equality: Realizing Women’s Rights,” which focuses on equality and human rights for all women and girls.
“Without these women, the world would look much different,” Abderhalden said.
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