Women in blockchain: the barriers under discussion

Alexa Romero / 29 Mar 2022 / 3 min

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Are there barriers due to gender or age in Blockchain technology? Women experts in blockchain respond.

In order to answer this and other questions, during the month of March at Aticco we have organized a series of events on the role of women in the professional world and in different industries.

The first of these Startup Talks, organized together with Upbizor, brought together four experts from the gaming industry. Now, in the second of the talks, we are passing the microphone to a group of curious and innovative women who are paving the way in blockchain technology.

These were:

Teresa Garriga: Consultant for the Digital Transformation of companies.
Marina Teixidor: CMO & Co-founder of Wohee
Valeria Caracciolo: Business Development EMEA at Coinfabrick

The session, titled 'Women on Blockchain, removing the barriers', was moderated by Montse Guardia Guell, Co-founder and CEO of Big Onion.

The gender gap and women in the blockchain ecosystem

For Marina Teixidor, entrepreneur and co-founder of Wohee, a Saas startup based on blockchain technology: "Although there are increasingly more women entrepreneurs or developers, there is still an educational component. We have to start changing from education and removing the existing prejudices that if you are a woman you have to go into humanities and if you are a man into STEM. I want to think that little by little this is changing."

On the other hand, Teresa Garriga believes that blockchain is a favorable environment for greater equality since it is a very new technology: "we all start from the same point."

The ethics behind blockchain

Often, the question arises about the multiple uses that can be given to technological advances. Blockchain has a barrier to entry which is ignorance, and as Marina argued, there is still a negative connotation associated with asset speculation in the collective imagination. Even so, Wohee's CMO believes that: “once all its real uses are known, this barrier will disappear on its own.”

Valeria Caracciolo added that we must understand technology as a tool that can be used in various ways.

This issue was one of the protagonists in the debate, and in fact the moderator Montse Guardia, asked by the attending press, argued that the uses depend on the ethics of the developers behind it and concluded: