The share of men among the city's computer and math workers stands at almost 80% - slightly higher than a decade ago, according to census figures. Men make up about 73% of tech workers nationally. What makes those figures even more astonishing is that women pioneered the computer field and outnumbered men for much of its history. — Photo by Árpád Czapp on Unsplash
Amber Tanaka was burned out.
Tanaka had been working service jobs to support an acting career and was coming to realise that a passion for theatre wouldn't negate the grind of spending day and night in low-paid positions. Then the pandemic hit, live performances were paused and it became more difficult to find service jobs.
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