Google Celebrates International Women’s Day 2025 with Doodle Honoring Women in STEM

Google wishes a happy International Women's Day 2025.

This annual Doodle celebrates International Women’s Day 2025!

About International Women’s Day 2025
This Doodle celebrates International Women's Day. The United Nations first recognized this holiday in 1975 to highlight how important women’s contributions have been all around the world.

With our Doodle, we honor visionary women in STEM fields. The Doodle artwork spotlights groundbreaking contributions by women who revolutionized space exploration, uncovered ancient discoveries, and pioneered lab research that fundamentally shaped our understanding of physics, chemistry, and biology. And these achievements represent just a small fraction of women’s contributions to science.

Their work represents the ongoing progress towards gender equality, yet STEM remains one of the areas where significant gaps still persist. Currently, women represent only 29% of the global STEM workforce. But this number grows larger every year.

International Women’s Day serves as a powerful reminder: the achievements of women have shaped our world throughout history. And it is because of their collective brilliance that we are able to experience the wonders of the modern world.

Happy International Women's Day 2025!

That's the aspiration. I turn to IFLScience for historical reality. Watch Women in science who changed the world.

Rosalind Franklin, Marie Curie, Caroline Herschel... These are just a few examples of female scientists who have made world-changing discoveries. Watch the video to hear their extraordinary stories.

Rosalind Franklin deserves more credit for her role in the discovery of the structure of DNA. However, the Nobel Prize committee had a non-sexist reason for excluding her; she was dead and Nobel Prizes are not awarded posthumously. She died in 1958 and the Crick and Watson's Nobel Prize for Medicine was awarded in 1962. If she had been alive and excluded, then sexism would have been a valid suspicion. That's not to diminish the effects of sexism in the past or present. Franklin still suffered an injustice during life and all the rest of the examples were quite real.

KUSA 9News in Denver offered a glimpse of the present in this week's Woman in STEM shares story as hiring disparities linger in these fields.

The number of women in STEM is growing, but it is still far below the number of men. Racial diversity is also lacking in these fields.

9News managed to balance realism and optimism in this segment. I applaud that.

That's a wrap for International Women's Day. Stay tuned for the highlights of tonight's Saturday Night Live. Lady Gaga!