You can easily take stock of the tech industry’s gender gap by strolling around the office of a random tech company.

More of a numbers person? Just have a look at U.S. Census Bureau statistics: Seven out of every 10 technologists in Philadelphia are male, according to the agency’s American Community Survey, cited in a report by the Economy League of Greater Philadelphia.

The disparity in these numbers spells out a a multifaceted problem for the tech sector. The most urgent one is glaring: It means that women, who already grapple with a palpable gender pay gap, are being largely underrepresented in the fastest growing sliver of the local economy.

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