- Through women-focused education and mentorship initiatives, Binance has invested more than $2 million to fund more than 36,000 Web3 scholarships for women by 2022.
- Binance will continue to fund programs, courses, and scholarships this year so that women gradually delve deeper into technological areas.
On the occasion of International Women’s Day, the largest digital asset exchange house on the planet by trading volume, Binance, he pointed recently through a statement, your interest and commitment to increasing the number of active and employed women on the Web3.
Through women-focused education and mentoring initiatives, Binance has invested more than $2 million to support different women in more than 10 nations around the world.in addition to noting that it will not only continue with said support, but will also increase it in 2024.
The money invested by Binance has been used to fund over 36,000 Web3 scholarships for women in 2022. These scholarships focused on courses related to blockchian and crypto environments in universities, schools and non-profit organizations. Likewise, Binance noted that these scholarships were awarded to women in Germany, Nigeria, Kenya, Brazil, France, South Africa, Australia and Ukraine.
Similarly, the consortium pointed out that it will continue to finance programs, courses and scholarships this year so that women little by little enter more into technological areas.
Women in the crypto environment
The efforts of the exchange house are aimed at stimulating more and more women, in order to get them interested in crypto and technological issues, in addition to seeking a more inclusive digital world, given the fact that women currently represent only 37 percent of cryptocurrency owners.
That being said, for Binance education is a key point to empower more womento show them that it really isn’t as complicated as the environment seems to be, in order for them to join the industry.
Binance will increase female representation in the digital world
Binance is a company familiar with International Women’s Day, since it was co-founded by Yi He in 2017, which makes it a one of the few crypto companies created by women on the planet.
This data is relevant, since currently, less than five percent of the founders of the main crypto companies on the planet are women. In fact, Until official data from last year, the number of crypto companies founded by women was approximately 292, in a sea of more than 10,000 companies.
Programs for women
Taking into account that the gender gap in the technological world continues to be an objective to be met, Binance has been in charge of addressing this point, through the creation of formal internship and postgraduate programs, which provide a greater diversity of people access to careers in crypto, including of course, women.
However, the firm’s efforts do not stop there, since it also has guidance and professional counseling for womenthrough a series of mentoring programs, educational courses, talent workshops and lecture series, all with the aim of offering and providing a wealth of industry experience, as well as insights on how to launch a career in Web3.
“As leaders in the crypto space, Binance has and assumes a responsibility to educate about our industry and that means increasing access and participation of women in Web3 and blockchain.”affirmed Frida Vargas, general manager of Binance for Mexico and added “The The crypto sector is not balanced in terms of gender. That is why we have to create the conditions to increase the participation of women as users, creators and decision makers in the sector. Education plays a preponderant role in this inclusion effort”.
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