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by rippercushions 1306 days ago
With the possible exception of Afghanistan (although the Taliban can't seem to get even their own policy straight), I don't believe there are any countries where "woman are forbidden to manage money, have a company or even a bank account". For example, all those are not just possible but common in Saudi Arabia.

And you also haven't addressed how blockchain would improve women's lot, compared to, say, a stack of US$100 bills.

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It looks like I'm wrong. Its more like 72 countries according WEF's 2020 report: https://www3.weforum.org/docs/WEF_GGGR_2020.pdf

> And you also haven't addressed how blockchain would improve women's lot, compared to, say, a stack of US$100 bills

Good luck shipping a stack of $100 bills to Palestine.

Countries score a zero on that survey if "women do not have the same rights as men to open a bank account at a formal financial institution." The word "same" is doing an awful lot of heavy lifting there, and does not equate to your assertion that they're entirely unable to open accounts: for example, historically in Saudi they had to use separate bank branches run by women for women.

And oh, Western Union is more than happy to send your stack of filthy fiat to Palestine:

https://location.westernunion.com/ps