RE: Why I Think More People (Especially Women) Need to Tune into the Crypto Convo
I think more people need to join the crypto conversation. Men.. Women.. anybody..
I do appreciate your article..... but to say that "Especially Women" need to join the conversation is or fill these block chain jobs is bull...
If you were to look at the dev teams for almost any coin... their are plenty of women on the teams.
I like how you used Forbes... which is an American business magazine.. crypto is worldwide as you know... and the bulk of the research and development is done outside of the USA... where did they even get data on this..
Is it american dev teams??? is it american investors?? is it just Americans that know about blockchain?? Is their sample size even big enough to comment on this??
Everyone does their own research and pursue their own dreams and ambitions.
To single out a specific group.... gender... or race is bull crap... we as crypto enthusiasts should educate anyone willing to listen about our passions.
You want more awareness about steemit or crypto that is great... fully encourage it..
But if you want to push that 3rd wave feminism agenda into a undiscriminating platform... shame on you.
Being American, I'm actually quite aware and frustrated, at how undeveloped the blockchain momentum is here for a number of variables. I don't like one bit that one the leaders foisted by American Media, even American crypto media, is Blythe Masters, one of the people directly responsible for the Credit Default Swaps, the underpinning scheme which annihilated the markets in 2008.
I've been reading much of this thread, and will never understand the language used that seems to be an attitude that there is some phantom obstacle keeping women away from learning about this space. I go to meetups and local conferences and mixers all the time about this stuff. I'm writing a textbook on crypto and share it with people as I go along. Most people aren't interested in what makes blockchain blockchain, they are interested in get-rich-quick schemes.
The empirical evidence is few women come to any of these events, in proportion to men, which has nothing to do with any barrier from keeping them out. It's not our problem if they don't want to sit around and talk Bayesian executions in EVM, testnets, tensor implementation, IPFS, or problem-solving how to store smart contract hashes in Mongo DB environment and being able to retrieve them successfully from clusters. Most people don't want to talk about that stuff period, but that is the interest level now in the industry; building a stable backbone to this thing. I keep hearing that this approach is not approachable for ladies; if that's true, then all I can do is point to evolutionary biology as exhibit A. Generally, men are interested in things/ideas, women are interested in people. Blockchain development is in the things/ideas phase.
I definitely can see your point and value your opinion. I agree that primarily just anyone should join the crypto conversation. My emphasis on women was not to be one of feminism, it was to shed a light on the gender gap & promote discussion on why that is. I don't wish to have women join crypto just to join, but I simply thought that there could be ways that we could encourage more women to be passionate about the industry & what blockchain tech aims to solve. Additionally, you make a valid point about crypto being worldwide and I can make sure to pull a few statistics and cite where the numbers come from so people are aware of the sample size. Thank you for your comment though as it showed me I could have worded some things better.