Google is celebrating the 100th anniversary of International Women's Day with a doodle that honors the achievements of women in the last century.
The doodle also highlights an event organized last month by Google and Women for Women International: the Join me on the Bridge campaign. From New York to Rwanda, women and men will gather on almost 300 bridges in 50 countries Tuesday in a celebration of women's achivements.
That includes the Brooklyn Bridge in New York, the Millennium Bridge in London, and the Golden Gate Bridge in San Francisco. But women and men will also gather in places as far-flung as Kabul, Afghanistan, La Paz, Bolivia and Sydney, Australia.
To keep track of today's bridge events, Google has put together a map, with red pins that point to an event near you. Google urged users to "check in" to any event they might attend and send photos and videos.
"I've found it inspiring to watch all of those little red pins pop up, knowing that each of them represents a group of women and their supporters coming together to let the world know how far we've come," Claire Hughes Johnson, vice president of global online sales at Google and chair of Google Women's Professional Community, wrote in a blog post.
The map also includes links to various women's organizations that are accepting donations. They are grouped by category - from empowerment and economic security to education and health.
Meanwhile, when you use Google Maps on March 8, Google has added a female version of its familiar "Pegman" icon (above) in celebration of International Women's Day.
"Women perform two-thirds of the world's work and produce half of the world's food but earn 10 percent of the income and own 1 percent of the property," Google said in a video message (below). Today's event and doodle are intended to "shine a spotlight on these issues that affect women in developing countries and around the world."
The doodle, meanwhile, features a multi-colored scene with images of women as doctors and graduates making up the "gle" in the Google logo.
Google has been hard at work on a variety of doodles lately, from Sunday's drawing honoring comics legend Will Eisner and a love-centric Valentine's Day creation from pop artist Robert Indiana to the February celebration of Thomas Edison's 164th birthday and an interactive "20,000 Leagues Under the Sea" doodle for author Jules Verne's 183rd birthday.