How to meet and make new female friends?

I am 30 and work from home. I’m pretty introverted but I want to be friends with like-minded women and have a female friend group. I like video games, reading, watching movies/shows, exercising, cooking/baking to name a few hobbies. I live in a big city but am always nervous to do stuff by myself for safety reasons but I need to learn to push past the anxiety. How would you make like-minded friends?