article_snippet: (CNN)A ballerina dancing in a music box and a girl sat in an armchair drinking tea surrounded by flowers.
article_snippet: This is how two of China's most popular websites chose to celebrate International Women's Day Sunday,  unleashing a storm of criticism, especially on social media, which ridiculed their home page "doodles" as sexist stereotypes. "
article_snippet: Search engine Baidu had no explicit message for Search engine Baidu visitors, but the rotating ballerina turned into a bride and then a mom with a stroller.
article_snippet: Search engine Baidu doodle depicted women in several different professions, including a scientist, artist, astronaut, chef, musician, teacher and volleyball player.
article_snippet: This is how you define women and celebrate women!" said Weibo user @Zoexiaoyizi of Baidu's music box.
article_snippet: Showing the same tin ear as Baidu and Youku, the People's Daily, the Communist Party's official newspaper,  published an online gallery entitled "Beauty with brains.
article_snippet: It featured 18 snapshots of female journalists covering the NPC in Beijing this week.
article_snippet: CNN Intern Harvard Zhang contributed to this report .
highlights_snippet: International Women's Day doodles stir controversy in China .
  