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Google Doodle celebrates 13 badass women for International Women's Day

So many firsts.
By Ariel Bogle  on 
Google Doodle celebrates 13 badass women for International Women's Day
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Wednesday's Google Doodle features a lot of firsts: The first Turkish woman to compete in the Olympics. The world's first computer programmer.

Those heroes would be Halet Çambel and Ada Lovelace, respectively. The illustration, marking International Women's Day 2017, also features the first woman in Argentina to receive a medical degree, Cecilia Grierson, and Korea's first female judge, Lee Tai-young.

According to Google(opens in a new tab), the search image depicts a girl whose grandmother is sharing the life stories of 13 exceptional women in history around the world. Also among the inspirational women featured are Ida Wells, the American journalist and civil rights activist, Lotfia El Nadi, Egypt's first female pilot, and Miriam Makeba, the South African singer and civil rights activist.

You can click the Google Doodle(opens in a new tab) to learn more about the inspirational figures.

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Ariel Bogle

Ariel Bogle was an associate editor with Mashable in Australia covering technology. Previously, Ariel was associate editor at Future Tense in Washington DC, an editorial initiative between Slate and New America.


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