The Bitcoin and the crypto currency industry has a very bad reputation for gender equality in terms of users, developers, entrepreneurs and investors. If any nation could resolve this challenge, it is Russia and we would explain below.
The Bitcoin and Blockchain inequality has a very bad gender equality nation
Perhaps Blockchain with the highest percentage of female users is Steem due to Steemit. When it comes to other Bitcoin and Blockchain industries, female participation is very low. Less than 5% of developers of crypto currencies are women.
Russia has the highest number of female engineers
While women shy away from science and maths in most nations, Russian women do not shy away from science and maths. The country may have the highest ratio of women in science, technology and maths.
Russia can also boast of being the first nation to send a woman into space. Russian cosmonaut Valentina Tereshkova became the first woman in space when she flew on the Vostok 6 on 16th June 1963.
During her 3 days in space she orbited the world around the 48 times. Russia has an impressive female literacy rate of 99.97% according to UNESCO.
How important is gender equality for Blockchain?
Female participation in the Bitcoin and Blockchain industries is very important due to the several reasons, I will outline a few of them:
- women would bring new perspective to the industry
- women are the largest shoppers
- women are the main users of remittance services
In summary, the participation of women in cryptocurrency would introduce new talents to the industry while also increasing its patronage.
This post is an expanded excerpt of one of our reports, read the full report:
8 compelling reasons why Russia MUST legalize Bitcoin and ICOs.
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