While the outfits have changed, still just 7 percent of magicians operating today are female — roughly the same proportion as the membership of the elite “Academy of Magical Arts” that calls the Magic Castle home.
The stereotype of a magician in a top hat sawing his glamorous, sequinned female assistant in half endures among the wider public, who can rarely name performers beyond Harry Houdini, David Copperfield, and David Blaine.
As the reaction of a spellbound audience to Drescher’s baffling card tricks and subtle sleights of hand later in the evening will show, women may be a minority in magic but are no less of a draw. Instead, it is the “shocking old-fashioned” mind-set of magicians that is keeping the number of women in her trade low—and that is something she feels is important to keep “yelling about.”
“You have to get through, jump over, a lot of hurdles in order to be respected in the community for being a magician and not just a woman. And that’s always annoying.”
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