Women are logging off the internet en masse on December 2nd, 2016 to protest how the tech industry is "stacked against anyone who is not a cisgender white male".
distributed-denial-of-women.org
>It's no secret that the tech industry is stacked against anyone who is not a cisgender white male. And we have had enough of it.
>We design, create, maintain, and manage the critical infrastructure and applications that power the internet economy. We struggle to be recognized, promoted, and paid for the intellectual and emotional labor that is demanded of us, while our male peers enjoy their positions of privilege.
>As recent distributed denial-of-service (DDoS) attacks have shown, by combining resources and working in tandem, the very infrastructure of the web can be brought to a screeching halt. We believe that without us the same effect would be felt rippling through every aspect of online life.
>We are calling on all women and non-binary people to stand in solidarity and pledge to stay home and stay offline in protest of being constantly overlooked, undervalued, underpaid, and downright attacked for daring to demand basic dignity and respect.
Maybe if women want to be represented in the tech sphere, they should stop being so god-awful at math? Just a thought.
