Why most magicians are men

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Harry Houdini pen andella David

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Copperfield what do all these people

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have in common you might not have

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thought about it but magicians all seem

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to be men and the numbers back it up

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only around 5% of magicians are women

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and it's even more pronounced among the

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industry's biggest names so where are

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all the female magicians we found one

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maybe she can tell us

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more people always ask asked me why

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aren't there more women in Magic well

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there's always been women in Magic

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always for over a hundred years women

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were topping the bills all over the

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country but much like many things of

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course women were written out of History

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which is why you might know who Houdini

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is but you perhaps don't know who Talmer

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is or Ionia or some of these really

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extraordinary women who were performing

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amazing amazing shows uh all those years

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ago Laura London is a world leading

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magician and slight of hand artist who's

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performed for the likes of King Charles

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and Darren Brown she was also the first

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female chair of the magic circle one of

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the oldest and most prestigious magic

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Societies in the world founded in 1905

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it was only in 1991 when the magic

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circle began accepting women though

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little did they know a female magician

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had