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Women in blockchain: the barriers under debate

29 Mar 2022

Are there gender or age barriers in blockchain technology? Women blockchain experts respond. In order to provide answers to these and other questions, during the month of March at Aticco we have organized a cycle of events on the role of women in the professional world and in different industries. The first of these Startup Talksorganized in partnership with Upbizor, brought together four gaming industry experts. Now, in the second of the talks we turn to micro a group of curious and innovative women who are blazing a trail in blockchain technology. These were: The session, entitled 'Women on Blockchain, removing the barriers'.was moderated by Montse Guardia GuellCo-founder and CEO of Big Onion.

The gender gap and women in the blockchain ecosystem.

For Marina Teixidor, entrepreneur and co-founder of Woheea SaaS startup based on blockchain technology: "Even though There are more and more women entrepreneurs or developers, but there is still an educational component. We have to change from education and remove the existing prejudices that if you are a woman you have to go into humanities and if you are a man you have to go into STEM. I would like to think that little by little this is changing".  On the other hand, Teresa Garriga believes that blockchain is an environment conducive to more equality because, being a very new technology, »we are all starting from the same point».  

The ethics behind blockchain

The question is often raised about the multiple uses that can be given to technological advances. The blockchain has a barrier to entry which is ignorance, and as Marina argued, there is still in the collective imagination a negative connotation associated with asset speculation. Even so, Wohee's CMO believes that: "once all its real utilities are known, this barrier will disappear by itself". Valeria Caracciolo added that we must understand technology as a tool that can be put to various uses. This issue was one of the protagonists in the debate, and in fact the moderator Montse Guardia, asked about the press assistantsHe argued that the uses depend on the ethics of the developers behind it and concluded:
»Technology is made by humans.»
If you want to relive the debate, you can watch the complete video here.   

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