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The CBC reports, http://www.cbc.ca/news/business/bitcoin-s-gender-divide-could-be-a-bad-sign-experts-say
Bitcoin, and the world of cryptocurrency, is a boys' club, say some experts, and that should be cause for concern.
Google Analytics results put the divide at 96.57 per cent men to 3.43 per cent women: https://coin.dance/stats/gender.
That's a huge red flag to Duncan Stewart, research director of Deloitte Canada's technology division. "It isn't merely that the value has risen as far and as fast as it has; it's the fact that it's 97 per cent men — that is, in and of itself, a potential danger sign," he says. "There are studies out there that suggest men are predisposed towards bubbles in a way that women are not."
Stewart made his case in a recent online post about the subject: https://www.linkedin.com/pulse/bitcoin-bubble-gender-split-says-probably-duncan-stewart/?trackingId=LlXWi2rCxUW0itfA92%2BhSQ%3D%3D
Stewart said he "cannot think of any security, currency or asset class in history that shows that extreme a gender divide and has been sustainable."
[...] Iliana Oris Valiente is a rarity in the cryptocurrency world. She has emerged as a female leader in this space and was recently chosen to lead consulting firm Accenture's global blockchain innovation division. Oris Valiente doesn't buy into the theory that an outsized amount of male interest in a particular asset in and of itself creates a bubble. "If we have primarily men involved in building the businesses and being the early-stage investors, they're likely to share the new tidbits and the new deals with their own established networks."
But without a major catalyst, she doesn't see the gender divide in this field narrowing anytime soon.
(Score: 5, Insightful) by Justin Case on Thursday January 04 2018, @01:04PM (13 children)
There was a time when women would rather eat a bowl of raw worms than touch a computer or a man who talked about computers.
But us men saw the potential and invested a lot of time to learn and invent.
Then when the money started rolling in, women wanted jobs changing the colors on a web site. When they saw men making more than they were, they screamed crime.
So... just wait... now that you've made your big bucks in bitcoin, expect to be told you should give women half of yours, just because it isn't fair that you took a risk and they didn't.
(Score: 2, Insightful) by kurenai.tsubasa on Thursday January 04 2018, @02:36PM (3 children)
Modded up.
I wish I could understand what feminism thinks it's doing. It's not helping a single woman learn computing. Feminism is running an exclusively negative campaign, and that's a good way to make enemies, not allies.
(Score: 2, Redundant) by The Mighty Buzzard on Thursday January 04 2018, @02:49PM (2 children)
It's trying to continue existing after essentially all of its goals have been accomplished. It's fairly common for any cause that there's money or power to be gained from to choose to double down on absurd, made up bullshit and unrelated causes rather than accept the win.
My rights don't end where your fear begins.
(Score: 2) by DeathMonkey on Thursday January 04 2018, @07:47PM (1 child)
TMB missed the entirety of 2017, apparently.
(Score: 2) by The Mighty Buzzard on Thursday January 04 2018, @08:38PM
And DeathMonkey missed the 80s, 90s, 00s, and 10s. If you don't know the difference between a sexual predator and a sexist, have a seat and listen to your betters talk.
My rights don't end where your fear begins.
(Score: 2) by JoeMerchant on Thursday January 04 2018, @02:53PM
If you're married, you already have. But, to be fair, you risked her assets in the investment, too.
🌻🌻 [google.com]
(Score: 2) by Oakenshield on Thursday January 04 2018, @04:08PM (3 children)
Many women are still that way. I can name seven women off the top of my head that flip out if they turn on a computer and it looks just slightly different than it did the day before. Just yesterday, I had one bitching that Office365 looks different than it used to. I tried to explain that it was because it's the online version and Microsoft is always tweaking it and it looks different under different browsers. She just wanted me to put it back to the way it was. sigh...
(Score: 4, Insightful) by tangomargarine on Thursday January 04 2018, @04:34PM (2 children)
To be fair, that's kind of a reasonable complaint...I get bent out of shape when my UIs are fucked with for no reason, too. Of which Microsoft is the undisputed master.
"Is that really true?" "I just spent the last hour telling you to think for yourself! Didn't you hear anything I said?"
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Thursday January 04 2018, @06:57PM (1 child)
At least now we know that Oakenshield is part of the problem. Just to be clear - fucking with the UI for the sake of fucking with the UI is bad.
(Score: 3, Informative) by Arik on Thursday January 04 2018, @08:02PM
And yet that's currently what most so-called programmers do with their time. :(
If laughter is the best medicine, who are the best doctors?
(Score: 4, Touché) by DeathMonkey on Thursday January 04 2018, @07:17PM (1 child)
There was a time when women would rather eat a bowl of raw worms than touch a computer or a man who talked about computers.
And before that time computers were "women's work" and men wouldn't touch them.
(Score: 2) by Justin Case on Thursday January 04 2018, @08:51PM
Good point. Computers had keyboards, looked like typewriters, therefore it must be a tool for secretaries, and Real Men had to stand back.
Those of us in the know laughed behind their backs while they made their assistants print their email for them.
I really think this is part of why the GUI was a necessity. Nerds didn't need it. The guys on the top floor did. Then they could compute without keyboarding.
I still think the world would be a better place today if the GUI was never invented. Time travel anyone?
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Thursday January 04 2018, @09:04PM (1 child)
Ahhh, https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Grace_Hopper [wikipedia.org] ?
and I'd count https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ada_Lovelace [wikipedia.org] as well.
(Score: 1) by kurenai.tsubasa on Friday January 05 2018, @12:07AM
Have another! https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Barbara_Liskov [wikipedia.org]
She's a very important person for OOP.