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Think there aren't women in bitcoin? Think again.

http://fortune.com/2015/04/24/women-in-bitcoin/

The article does go on to admit that "96% of bitcoin users are male" though.

Bitcoin currently represents the convergence of computer science/technology, finance, and politics. Take a look at Silicon Valley (computer science/technology) and it's mostly men. The same is also true for Wall Street (finance) and Washington (politics). Point is, it's usually men who are attracted to these fields.

Women are also more risk averse when it comes to investing. In fact, 90 percent of speculative investors are male. Until Bitcoin stops being highly speculative, highly technical, and highly political, I don't think we will be seeing many women jumping on board.

Another issue I can see is that it's usually men who take up the prominent leadership positions in society so using the gender distribution of Bitcoin CEOs and executives to make assumptions about the Bitcoin community as a whole might not work so well. 60% of social networking users are female but Facebook, Twitter, and Google all have male founders and CEOs.

Of course Bitcoin is not very diverse at this point, but it also took several years until women started using computers and the internet (only social networks like FB, Twitter, Tumblr managed to get most women to use the internet every day)

People are excited about new things, but Bitcoin is still too complicated for most people (like old email addresses: customercare@63.239.67.9). We should encourage common standards to make it easier (a single unicode symbol, currency code, etc.)

What should the BTC unicode symbol replace on keyboards?

I am glad to see articles like this... This just counter the FUD being spread --> https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=1036439.0

We see great things from Bitcoin women, and I can include this as proof. --> http://olga-star.com/

Let's look past gender, and embrace each other as a Bitcoin community with no borders and discrimination.  ;D ;D

I agree completely. What matters most is whether or not the technology is good, and if it is, then everything else will inevitably follow. Even way back in the 1980's when the Internet was still in its infancy, the underlying technology was good and those who realized this were its first innovators. It just took a little bit of time for others to realize this and set up businesses around it. After all, innovation encourages further innovation. By the 1990's, this process was pretty much in full swing and the eventual rise of services like Facebook and Twitter as well as their adoption by all levels of society was pretty much inevitable.

The same is also true for not just Bitcoin or the Internet but many other examples of technology as well. Computers, air travel, automobiles, etc. and all follow a similar pattern.

I think there are a lack of women involved but you could also easily say there's a lack of female CEOs etc. I think more women will join bitcoin as it progresses as well.

Most of the women don't really come in need of an alt currency that much like men, so they don't really have to face the technical terms. But hopefully the terms might change and more and more women can contribute to the bitcoin community.

I also do not agree the opinion that says no woman who knows bitcoin, only the numbers are still few compared to men, we can only hope that in the future will be a lot of women in the world who are interested in bitcoin.