The UK Crypto Curry Club just published their 101 Women in Blockchain and Blockleaders’ Editor in Chief, Jillian Godsil, is in their number

Blockchain, along with finance and cyber-security, is notorious as being one of the world’s worst industries for female representation. In the UK, only around 5% of people working in blockchain are women. In Canada, this is 3%. Even the most promising statistics for the global blockchain community indicate that women make up only 9% of active participants with around the same percent (8.5%) of start-ups having a female founder or-founder.

The Crypto Curry Club runs some of the most popular and best attended events in the UK on blockchain and cryptocurrency and are regularly congratulated for our attendees comprising 20–30% women. This is rare for this very male-dominated industry.

Even UNICEF, an organisation known for striving for gender diversity and with a staff comprising of 70% women, could only count one female founder in the six blockchain start-ups their Innovation Unit funded.

In the UK, the Crypto Curry Club did some extensive research into the blockchain ecosystem. Of the topmost active 100 blockchain and crypto pre series A start-ups, only 19% had a female founder. In most cases this was not the only founder, but one of several cofounders.

On the trading or investment side, only 5–7% of crypto users, traders and investors are women. In 2017, only $5 billion out of a wealth creation of $85…