Comments on: Searching for America’s Invisible Women

By: Resources for Speaking Up « Speaking Up

Resources for Speaking Up « Speaking Up — Wed, 30 Nov 2011 20:37:38 +0000

[...] Shelby Knox: Searching for America’s Invisible Women [...]

By: Annie

Annie — Wed, 30 Nov 2011 14:34:51 +0000

Every time there is a Doodle, I think about this article and how I keep hoping that Google will notice their bias and take progressive, purposeful action in this area.

My friends and I have taken to calling them “Dude-les,” and each time one is posted we exchange an email with a listing of women and people of color who were born on the same day and could have been chosen instead. I want to DO something more significant about this, but I don’t know where to start. Thanks for highlighting this issue!

By: Julie

Julie — Wed, 20 Jul 2011 15:30:48 +0000

Shelby, I have noticed this horrible discrepency, and to find this article, I “binged” it, rather than Google it. Though a couple of years ago, I “Googled” it, and found something written about it. Perhaps it was another article by you. Again today, July 20th, 2011, another man. Each time there is a doodle, I hope to see it is a woman, and I am almost always disappointed. And why do we celebrate birthday dates 189 years later? All bizarre and obnoxious to me.

By: Elliot Baron

Elliot Baron — Wed, 01 Dec 2010 17:32:48 +0000

I wrote to Dr. Lynette Long when she first pointed out the fact that Google saluted Alphonse Mucha over Amelia Earhardt. The oversight is less than it appears. Having returned from the Czech Republic just prior to this instance, I can first of all tell you that Mucha is a very big deal in Europe. Google caters to an international audience, not only Americans. Finally, as the founder of the Art Nouveau movement, it would seem natural that the graphic designers who decide whom they want to honor, might consider Mucha more highly than the average person. Last but not least, Mucha’s most famous works were of Sarah Bernhardt, who commissioned Mucha to produce all of her posters.

By the way, I am sympathetic to the argument and am a donor to the Earhardt balloon project. I just don’t think that everything is always at it might first appear. Today, Google honored Rosa Parks.

By: richard

richard — Sat, 09 Oct 2010 08:05:10 +0000

i love what you guys are doing keep up.i want you to link me up with a good lady for life partner

By: Shiuan

Shiuan — Sun, 01 Aug 2010 13:14:38 +0000

Thank you for pointing out Google’s sexist choices. Did you try contacting them about it?

By: Google Doodles and invisible women : EVE | Equal Visibility Everywhere

Google Doodles and invisible women : EVE | Equal Visibility Everywhere — Tue, 27 Jul 2010 14:42:35 +0000

[...] now we have. Or rather, Shelby Knox has, in this wonderful post about Google Doodles, Amelia Earhart, and EVE: Saturday marked the 113th anniversary of the birth of Amelia Earhart, the pioneering female pilot [...]

By: CV Harquail

CV Harquail — Mon, 26 Jul 2010 16:57:46 +0000

Shelby, thanks so much for continuing your analysis of the lack of representation of women of color and white women in Google Doodle and also for bringing EVE to the attention of your readers. Every changed symbol helps-

By: Suzanne Scoggins

Suzanne Scoggins — Mon, 26 Jul 2010 14:48:39 +0000

Thanks so much for this, Shelby. This is so cool — I just found your post about the Google thing a few days ago, and was thinking “we have got to cover that at EVE.” And now you tie them both together so beautifully.

Thanks for the shout-out!

By: Yvonne

Yvonne — Mon, 26 Jul 2010 14:36:43 +0000

Thanks so much for posting this.