Advocacy group accuses Google of sexism in doodles

In a shocking incidence of sexism on the web, a recent study has revealed that a majority of Google Doodle honorees have been male figures.

A girls' advocacy group, SPARK Movement, released a report noting the gender ratio in four years worth of data on Google doodles.

According to Fox News, the data between 2010-2013 showed that out of the 445 doodles, 82.5 percent featured men and a meager 17.5 percent featured women.

The data, which took into account only human historic figures, also counted women of color in doodles, and it was found that they represented just 4 percent of doodles over the past four years.

Executive director of SPARK Movement, Dana Edell said that Google is the information center of the world, and it's presenting a skewed and imbalanced vision of who creates knowledge.

Edell further said that Google was telling girls and boys that the people who have made a contribution to the world were white men.

Meanwhile, Google's Doodle Team Lead, Ryan Germick, said that women have historically been underrepresented in almost all fields: science, school curricula, business, politics and sadly, doodles, adding that the company was already working to improve the doodle gender balance.