{"id":8312,"date":"2013-03-23T12:00:40","date_gmt":"2013-03-23T16:00:40","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/?p=8312"},"modified":"2013-03-23T00:37:04","modified_gmt":"2013-03-23T04:37:04","slug":"why-arent-there-female-magicians","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/2013\/why-arent-there-female-magicians\/","title":{"rendered":"Why Aren\u2019t There Female Magicians?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" alt=\"\" src=\"http:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/03\/032313_0430_WhyArentThe1.png\" width=\"639\" height=\"400\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Around five percent of all magicians are females writes Ashley Fetters. She explored some theories as to why so few choose to take up the trade:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Magicians normally get there start early as young kids with a magic kit as a present. Boys are more likely to get this as a gift than girls.<\/li>\n<li>Magic is essentially a puzzle and like math and science seems to attract more boys than girls.<\/li>\n<li>Male clothing \u2013 with its more baggy jackets and large pockets \u2013 is better suited for the art of deception.<\/li>\n<li>Women also have smaller hands, on average, than men \u2013 and large hands are useful for obscuring the audience&#8217;s gaze from, say, a deck of cards.<\/li>\n<li>Magic unlike other forms of entertainment is best viewed in a live setting. Until relatively recently it was expected for women to stay at home and constant travel wasn&#8217;t a realistic option.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Read more about the role that the inquisition played, what women would likely appreciate about magician&#8217;s conferences, and some of the more notable female magicians over <a href=\"http:\/\/www.theatlantic.com\/entertainment\/archive\/2013\/03\/why-are-there-so-few-female-magicians\/274099\/\">here<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Source: <a href=\"http:\/\/www.theatlantic.com\/entertainment\/archive\/2013\/03\/why-are-there-so-few-female-magicians\/274099\/\">The Atlantic<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Via: <a href=\"http:\/\/marginalrevolution.com\/marginalrevolution\/2013\/03\/assorted-links-738.html\">Marginal Revolution<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Around five percent of all magicians are females writes Ashley Fetters. She explored some theories as to why so few choose to take up the trade: Magicians normally get there start early as young kids with a magic kit as a present. Boys are more likely to get this as a gift than girls. Magic [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":8311,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-8312","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-daily-bulletin"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"http:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/03\/032313_0430_WhyArentThe1.png","_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8312","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=8312"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"http:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8312\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":8316,"href":"http:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8312\/revisions\/8316"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/8311"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8312"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=8312"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=8312"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}