Devils unveil gender equality warmup jerseys

The New Jersey Devils wore special warmup jerseys for their Gender Equality Night on Tuesday, which is also International Women's Day.

The jerseys were designed by Amrisa Niranjan, a local artist from northern New Jersey. The new sweaters feature a multitude of colors, rings and special dates that are symbolic to women's history. Niranjan used a marbling effect with the colors blue, pink, white and purple to represent the fluidity of gender.

Around the Devils crest, there are three rings.
"Each ring is meant to show the depth and layers in the discussion for gender equality,"
Niranjan told the Devils
. "It takes time, and work built on work done before. Each ring could be considered a ripple in moving the notch forward on progress towards gender equality."
The outer ring of the design features five Roman numerals, representing the years in which important events occurred. The years include MDCCCLO (1851, when Sojourner Truth said her famous "Ain't I a Woman?" speech); MCMXX (1920, when the 19th amendment was ratified); MCMLXIII (1963, when the Equal Pay Act was signed); MCMLXXII (1972, when Title IX was signed); MCMXCVIII (1998, when the first time women's hockey was played in the Olympics in Nagano, Japan).

"Working on this project was thought provoking and generally fun," Naranjan

. Overall, it was just cool to see a hockey team care about the topic of gender equality."
It is the first time in team history the Devils have worn jerseys for gender equality.