Stéphanie Cabossioras is Managing Director of Binance France. She is a specialist in the regulation of the financial sector and has been particularly interested for several years in the impact of blockchain and cryptoassets on financial markets.
On this International Women's Day, I would like to share some elements of my journey that could be useful to others to encourage them to push open doors that they would not necessarily have considered pushing.
During my studies, I remember being confronted with numerous sociological studies relating to the place of women in the distribution of jobs and tasks. These studies all concluded that there was a lower representation of women in certain jobs and an over-representation in carrying out domestic tasks. These studies had an impact on me because I have never stopped wanting to disprove these statistics ever since.
Make the statistics lie by being one more individual who can tip the balance of the numbers in the direction of the presence of women in the categories where they were least represented.
To defy the statistics by being among those who attempted and succeeded in entering the French Grandes Écoles and completed long and demanding studies, whether at the Ecole Normale Supérieure de Cachan, at Sciences Po or at the Ecole National Administration.
To defy the statistics by being among those embracing a career in the financial sector, as a magistrate at the Court of Auditors then as deputy director of legal affairs at the Financial Markets Authority. Coming from the generation that experienced the 2009 financial crisis, I specialized more particularly in the regulation of the financial sector, whether traditional institutions or financial innovation.
Finally, to defy the statistics by being among those who have joined the world of blockchain and Web 3.0, which constitutes a cutting-edge sector for the financial industry as much as for new technologies in the broad sense.
Why invite women to join the blockchain and Web 3.0 sector?
Women have everything to gain from pushing the doors of innovative sectors such as blockchain and cryptoassets.
As actors of change, they must participate in building the world of tomorrow. Blockchain undoubtedly represents a technological revolution in the same way as the Internet in its time. Participating in the development of this technology means participating in building the daily lives of tomorrow for everyone. In the same way that the development of the Internet - from email to social networks - has changed our lifestyles by revolutionizing access to information, blockchain technology can change our lifestyles by revolutionizing value transfers. between individuals, whether virtual currencies, NFTs, fan tokens or other uses that remain to be developed. Web 3.0 refers to the ability of blockchain technology to change the transfer of value between individuals, which is likely to have a profound impact not only on the financial sector but on many other sectors as well. Women must seize the opportunity now to build the uses and value of tomorrow.
Also as users, women must get involved in the development of blockchain and cryptoassets. These new diversification assets, a source of income as well as subject to volatility, are asset classes that should be known in order to invest wisely and while controlling the risks. The income derived from these new assets must fuel women's financial diversification strategies in the service of their financial autonomy. To date, women represent only 37% of cryptoasset holders.
More fundamentally, blockchain is a technology which, by its decentralized nature, moves in the direction of equalizing individuals, which is likely to serve the cause of women. One of the founding values of Binance is freedom, freedom to circulate value, and for everyone to dispose of their assets in compliance with existing rules. Binance and more generally Web 3.0 is a favorable, albeit demanding, environment for diversity.
The doors to innovation are open to those who know how to push them.
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