Quixotic Pedagogue

Daily Wisdom: A Lack of Diversity in Google Doodles

Everyone enjoys visiting Google and seeing a clever doodle celebrating a famous figure or event in human history, but the feminist collective SPARK noticed one glaring problem: the doodles didn’t reflect human diversity.

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They write:

Now that the SPARK team has (almost) recovered from being totally mind-blown by the statistics we’ve uncoveredwe’re demanding that Google make a concerted effort to change such a blatant imbalance. We want them to acknowledge the problem, but we also want more: we want Google to publicly commit to improving these numbers. We’d be happy to help out—in fact, we’ve already gotten a head start bycompiling a list of historical heroes that totally deserve Doodles, and that way Google has to do less research.

Discuss it here.

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