With some help from Google, a group of women are changing history by spotlighting “herstory.”

SPARK Movement has partnered with Google to create a smartphone app called “Women on the Map,” just in time for Women’s History Month. The app alerts users when they’re near places where women made history. SPARK, which stands for Sexualization Protest: Action, Resistance, Knowledge, is an organization that encourages healthy sexuality and promotes gender equality in all areas.

According to The Huffington Post, the idea for the app first started a year ago when SPARK noticed there were very few women featured in “Google Doodles,” the designs featured on Google’s homepage during certain holidays. After some research, SPARK learned that only 17 percent of Google Doodles between 2010 and 2013 featured women. SPARK is trying to change those numbers.

Google, it turns out, had already initiated a plan to diversify its Google Doodles, but the two groups discussed the more general concern for the disregard of women’s contributions throughout history. Thus “Women on the Map” was created using Google’s existing “Field Trip” mapping app, which alerts users about information related to the locations they’re near. To use the Field Trip app, iPhone users need to download the app, where they can find the “Spark: Women On The Map” installment in the “Historic Places & Events” tab.

The Women on the Map app was created collaboratively with Google, SPARK and the SPARKteam, which includes young women between the ages of 13 and 22 who researched the women they wanted people to learn about. The app now includes the stories of 119 women from 28 countries, with more than 60 percent being women of color.

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“The purpose of Women on the Map is to show the world that there were — and are — so many women whose accomplishments have been seemingly invisible to us,” Ajaita Saini, a member of the SPARKteam, told The Huffington Post. “We need girls to know that they can be whatever they want, and their contributions are as equal as if a guy did it. Likewise, we need guys to know that not everything done in the past was the work of men.”

The Women on the Map app alerts users to a major historical event that occurred at that location and the important roles women played in it. While the app includes recognizable names like Rosa Parks, the goal of the app is to shine a light on women we don’t always hear about in history class. Some of the women on the Google-powered map include:

  • The Arpilleristas in Santiago, Chile, a group of women who wove colorful tapestries documenting the turmoil and violence of Pinochet’s regime;
  • Mary Anning in Lyme, England, a renowned fossilist who discovered fossils of a Plesiosaurus, rocking the scientific community to its core;
  • Christine Jorgensen, the first person to undergo a sex change operation in the U.S.;
  • Patsy Takemoto Mink, the first Japanese-American female lawyer to practice law in Hawaii; and
  • Mary Ellen Pleasant, an activist and abolitionist in San Francisco who, among other things, would dress like a jockey to help slaves escape their plantations.