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14. 05. 14

How One Woman Is Inspiring Others to Achieve the Impossible

Elsa Hammond is attempting the impossible. On June 7, 2020, she will be competing in the Great Pacific Race 2014, rowing 2400 miles from California to Hawaii. Rowing. In a boat, by herself, for three months.

I heard Elsa’s story this week and am seriously in awe of this woman. I can’t imagine rowing one mile, much less 2400. And to top it off, she is dedicating each of those 2400 miles to the GREAT Initiative, a gender equality charity, with the goal of celebrating inspirational women.

I’m the lead developer for the cryptocurrency, Ultracoin. Ultracoin is joining with BitcoinWoman Magazine to sponsor Elsa in her race. We will be supporting her, with donations and publicity – and by trying to raise awareness of the GREAT Initiative.

As a woman working in a male-dominated industry, I experience the issue of gender inequality every day. I’ve been very fortunate in my career to have women that have mentored me, have opened doors for me and have given me opportunities. But what means the most are those women that have inspired me, that have cheered me on, that have encouraged me to excel.

 Every day I have to push to be taken seriously, to have my work be valued and to be allowed to use my leadership abilities. What keeps me pushing is what I’ve seen other women do. I am able to get past my fear of failure and achieve far more than I ever thought possible.

To me, inspiration is seeing someone try what others are afraid to do. Seeing someone push boundaries. Seeing someone take on a challenge that scares them to death. I am more inspired by what someone tries to do than anything else.

Our fight for gender equality will not be won by implementing laws. It will be won by women pushing those boundaries and taking on those challenges. It will be won by women becoming so strong and so indispensable that the world takes notice. Women like Elsa inspire us to do just that.

So here’s to you Elsa. I offer my support in your journey, and my whole team does too. Hopefully we can take on some of the weight of those oars for you, so you can fly.

DCGirl

BitcoinWoman magazine and The Ultracoin team encourage everyone to read Elsa’s story on her website and help her in this incredible journey.

http://www.elsahammond.com/

Read also the article: http://bitcoinwoman.com/index.php/btc-business/204-rowing-the-pacific-solo-on-bitcoin

An Ultracoin wallet is placed on Elsa Hammond’s website at http://www.elsahammond.com/donate/.

You can track the donations at:

http://bitgo.pw:3731/address/UZ3dTp7NBnUhGLmFYfJpyDd28ci9jSVDZp

image by Wallenius Wilhelmsen

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Joshua and Philip Scigala are passionate long-term supporters of bitcoin and the community. Both have a long history in technology and in the gold industry.

We like the idea and we publish their press release below:

First real time trading platform for bitcoin and physical gold

 · Vaultoro.com gives users the opportunity to be 100% bank independent

· The gold is stored in the user's name in high security vaults in Switzerland

· All bitcoin holdings are publicaly visible and verifiable

· All gold holdings are audited by BDO, one of the largest auditing firms in the world

With the launch of Vaultoro.com a person in Australia can potentially pay for a friend's beer in New York instantly using gold. Vaultoro is combining the oldest currency - gold - with bitcoin, the newest currency in the world. For the first time people around the world will be able to trade bitcoin and gold 100% bank independently. Users' gold is insured and vaulted in professional Swiss vaults while its value flies around the world in real-time.

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Why do you think more men are drawn to Bitcoin than women? Why is there a disconnect between females and Bitcoin?
    
That was the question I started to ask myself when I learned about bitcoin, why we are different than men in tech, why men still dominate STEM college majors and careers. Because this is the real issue. I think finally I found the answer- I assume it's not the matter of Bitcoin but information technology. Why there is such a great technological gap between men and women.... Stats are clear: 'women currently comprise 18% of computer science undergraduate majors'. In US. In EU, in IT sector work only 1.5% of women.

What are possible reasons? I did a small research.

Maybe we are just inherently stupid? Apparently not. It was proven by a lot of researches (even not ideologicaly motivated) that women are comparably intelligent to men. At least at an early stage of life. Later, men who are more often involved in activities requiring learning new things become a little more intelligent due to such training. However the difference is usually not more than 3%. This suggests, that despite lack of training and multiple factors potentialy negatively affecting women intellectual development, they are at least as intelligent as men.
The above gives us answer what is not responsible for handicapped position of women in more serious areas of human activity, but what is responsible?
I can pinpoint two factors.

Biology.

People often disregard biological differencies as just a matter of appearance and physiology. In fact we are shaped through our entire life by experiences. These experiences are different between men and women. And not just because we cannot easily urinate standing and men do not menstruate :) . There are more subtle, but ultimately more important for intellectual formation differences. Just to show a few: women visual perception is focused on colors and general image, while men more precisely perceive details and movement (this is due to different hormones inhibiting formation of respective neurones); there are differences in three dimensional orientation based on visual perception; there is measurable difference in sound perception between both sexes. There are lot more such cognitive differences that made up and affect our experience.

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