# International Women's Day (and Google) **URL:** \ **Category:** Miscellaneous and Personal Stuff I Must Share\ **Created:** [March 7, 2014, 5:26pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/international-womens-day-and-google/683130 "2014-03-07T17:26:54Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 10\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![BigT](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/bigt/32/12044_2.png) [@BigT](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/BigT)\ **Post date:** [March 7, 2014, 5:26pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/international-womens-day-and-google/683130/1 "2014-03-07T17:26:54Z")
International Women’s Day is tomorrow, and I’m all for it. And Google made a Doodle about it. But, as I watch, I couldn’t help but laugh: not a single bit of it is in English. So apparently, women in English speaking countries are always treated well and don’t need a special day. Either that, or Google doesn’t think “International” includes the U.S., Canada, or the UK. One of my friends on Facebook posted a bunch of photos she said were in anticipation of Women’s Day, and I asked her what that was. She responded that it was the day that women would say “yes” instead of “no.” :eek: Granted, she doesn’t speak English natively. (Guess that’s why she knew about the holiday.) Just some silly stuff I thought I’d share. ---
**Author:** ![Nava](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/n/da6949/32.png) [@Nava](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Nava)\ **Post date:** [March 7, 2014, 5:51pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/international-womens-day-and-google/683130/2 "2014-03-07T17:51:26Z")
One of the pics in Google’s Doodle is a woman in front of a poster that says “a history of Silicon Valley”. Is that in Mexico now? ---
**Author:** ![Alessan](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/alessan/32/465_2.png) [@Alessan](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Alessan)\ **Post date:** [March 7, 2014, 6:36pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/international-womens-day-and-google/683130/3 "2014-03-07T18:36:13Z")
I cought a few snippets of English there towards the end. ---
**Author:** ![Doctor\_Jackson](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/doctor_jackson/32/32_2.png) [@Doctor\_Jackson](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Doctor_Jackson)\ **Post date:** [March 7, 2014, 7:16pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/international-womens-day-and-google/683130/4 "2014-03-07T19:16:23Z")
…anyone know where I can get some for free? What? On national doughnut day Krispy Kreme gave away doughnuts, on national pancake day IHOP gave away free pancakes, so logically… ---
**Author:** ![Doctor\_Jackson](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/doctor_jackson/32/32_2.png) [@Doctor\_Jackson](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Doctor_Jackson)\ **Post date:** [March 7, 2014, 7:20pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/international-womens-day-and-google/683130/5 "2014-03-07T19:20:27Z")
Ninja’d, will report as a duplicate. ---
**Author:** ![Doctor\_Jackson](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/doctor_jackson/32/32_2.png) [@Doctor\_Jackson](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Doctor_Jackson)\ **Post date:** [March 7, 2014, 7:28pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/international-womens-day-and-google/683130/6 "2014-03-07T19:28:39Z")
Yay! Free women all over the world! What? On national doughnut day Krispy Kreme gave away doughnuts, on national pancake day IHOP gave away free pancakes, so logically… ---
**Author:** ![Shodan](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/9f8e36/32.png) [@Shodan](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Shodan)\ **Post date:** [March 7, 2014, 7:55pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/international-womens-day-and-google/683130/7 "2014-03-07T19:55:47Z")
> [@Doctor\_Jackson](#): > > …anyone know where I can get some for free? > > What? On national doughnut day Krispy Kreme gave away doughnuts, on national pancake day IHOP gave away free pancakes, so logically… I’m not looking forward to Holocaust Remembrance Day. Regards, Shodan ---
**Author:** ![twickster](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/ec9cab/32.png) [@twickster](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/twickster)\ **Post date:** [March 7, 2014, 8:15pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/international-womens-day-and-google/683130/8 "2014-03-07T20:15:54Z")
Merged duplicate threads. ---
**Author:** ![Martini\_Enfield](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/martini_enfield/32/11123_2.png) [@Martini\_Enfield](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Martini_Enfield)\ **Post date:** [March 9, 2014, 5:51am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/international-womens-day-and-google/683130/9 "2014-03-09T05:51:30Z")
> [@BigT](#): > > International Women’s Day is tomorrow, and I’m all for it. And Google made a Doodle about it. But, as I watch, I couldn’t help but laugh: not a single bit of it is in English. So apparently, women in English speaking countries are always treated well and don’t need a special day. Not sure if that’s supposed to be a woosh, but the data from this [interesting BBC article](http://www.bbc.com/news/world-24650912) could be seen as suggesting women in the “main” English-language (UK/Ireland/US/Canada/Australia/NZ) countries are doing pretty well for themselves; and so it could be further argued by some that no, they don’t need a special day as a result. ---
**Author:** ![GuanoLad](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/guanolad/32/42_2.png) [@GuanoLad](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/GuanoLad)\ **Post date:** [March 9, 2014, 8:21am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/international-womens-day-and-google/683130/10 "2014-03-09T08:21:57Z")
> [@BigT](#): > > International Women’s Day is tomorrow, and I’m all for it. And Google made a Doodle about it. But, as I watch, I couldn’t help but laugh: not a single bit of it is in English. So apparently, women in English speaking countries are always treated well and don’t need a special day. Either that, or Google doesn’t think “International” includes the U.S., Canada, or the UK. Considering that 99% of what Google or anyone else does online is strongly weighted towards English-speakers, if not the US only, then I found their approach refreshing. There is a little bit of English spoken in the clip, but I don’t think they were in US accents.