Women looking for a way to enter a male-dominated space like crypto and blockchain may be fatigued in by nonfungible tokens, according to Women in Blockchain Talks founder and host Lavinia Osbourne.

Though the ongoing pandemic has left people in many countries in financial trouble — whether by losing their jobs, existence unable to physically get to banks, or other concerns — Osbourne told Cointelegraph the event may have pushed many women into crypto and blockchain one time they were forced to move on from other careers. She said the contempo surge and media coverage of nonfungible tokens, or NFTs, had made crypto "more relatable" to many people in the arts and other creative fields.

"People expect at NFTs and it's similar 'information technology'due south different — I don't actually get the engineering,'" said Osbourne. "When they're hearing all these stories about people making money on NFTs, it'south similar 'how tin I get involved?' I think NFTs are a good pathway to entice people into the space."

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Though Osbourne was likely referring to men and women of all economic backgrounds, her assertion would seem to be supported by the popularity of an NFT project recently launched by That '70s Testify and Family unit Guy star Mila Kunis. The actress said she developed an interest in crypto during the pandemic, noting information technology to exist a "very masculine area." She later pioneered the NFT project "Stoner Cats," which featured prominent names from Hollywood and the crypto space, including Ethereum co-founder Vitalik Buterin. The project sold 10,420 NFTs in under 35 minutes earlier this week and streamed its first episode several days afterwards.

Osbourne said that although NFTs were 1 path to entry, there was yet the problem of the underrepresentation of women in crypto and blockchain firms. Women account for roughly 34% of those working in the tech industry but only 12% of those in blockchain, according to the Women in Blockchain Talks founder. She proposed closing the gap with a campaign "to testify women that tech, blockchain, science, Stem is a space for them."

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"If these women want to take a career that has some longevity to information technology, then they take to look at these spaces," said Osbourne. "Traditionally information technology'south just been overwhelmingly male person, and there'southward been cipher to counteract that."

She added:

"If we want to bring in more than women, and then nosotros need to shine a spotlight on women, so that other women can see those other women and experience comfortable to know that this space is for them also."

Equally part of these goals, Osbourne and others are working to bring in l,000 women into blockchain by 2023. The entrada encourages women to sign upwardly and larn more about the benefits — financial and personal — of inbound the space.

Cointelegraph's interim editor-in-master, Kristina Lucrezia Cornèr, will be speaking with Osbourne on the second ceremony of Women in Blockchain Talks in September.