Not that this will explain the large gap entirely, but aren't women generally more risk adverse?
Sanity and intelligence, mostly.
>What do you see as the barriers for women to participate in bitcoin?
Why do you want to have a discussion involving logic when all I want to do is signal my virtues?
It's against HN's rules to use this site primarily for political or ideological battle. We ban accounts that do that, so please stop doing that. Flamebait, like the comment you posted here, is particularly against the rules.