American Doctlment/Press Release,
Sailer, Steve
• CENTER FOR THE STUDY OF PROBLEMS* FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE CONTACT: STEVE SAILER REPORT CITES BIAS AGAINST WOMEN IN DRUG RACKETS "Aspiring Female Traffickers Lack Role Models," Notes...
...Other experts concur...
...We originally expected gender equality in such a nontraditional, multicultural business," recalls Dr...
...Womyndaughter blames the inequity on Reagan administration cutbacks...
...The very term 'Day Care' reflects institutional insensitivity to those who work mostly between midnight and dawn," points out Dr...
...The spokesperson admits that older drug lords may not, always fully grasp the career aspirations of female dealers, but the rising generation is committed to equality...
...As the evidence of male domination mounted, however, we began searching for an Old Boys Network that locked women out...
...Spode wants to focus next on "gender apartheid" in the mugging and pornography trades, and to examine why women have been able to maintain a high market share in the streetwalking industry...
...Activists denounce the lack of government programs to meet the special needs of mothers who are also dealers...
...Even more disturbing, a "glass ceiling" shuts women out of the top rungs of the profession, according to a new study by Clarissa Spode, Professor of Sociology at Dartmouth and author of "Cracking Through: Diversity, Dignity and Drugs...
...and yet, strangely appealing...
...One source of bias revealed: Drug dealers on "Miami Vice" (summary of 122 episodes) Men Women Dogs Total 1,711 127 36 Shown terminating career 901 92 3 Reason for terminating career: Shot by Sonny and/or Rico 901 6 3 Slept with Sonny and/or Rico 0 86 0 The researchers found chauvinism widespread within the drug industry...
...Spode faults the media for purveying stereotypes that discourage women from entering this lucrative field...
...For example, as the attached chart indicates, "Miami Vice" depicted in total only 127 female "drug industry participants" compared to 1,711 men and 36 dogs...
...She stresses DEAL's new affirmative action campaign, which aims to increase female employment to 40% of "mules...
...His scenario for a non-sexist mob movie—"The Godparent"—was treated with disregard by Hollywood...
...Spode: "I expect to be shocked by the discrimination I'll find...
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...30Steve Sailer is a Chicago businessman...
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...One mother told me she would never deal drugs because she couldn't bear to think what would happen to her children if she were killed or imprisoned...
...Spode...
...A spokesperson for the Drug Entrepreneurs of America League denies charges of discrimination, noting, for example, that Miami billionaire Francisco Fajita employs 103 young women as private aides...
...Linda M., a spunky New Yorker, recounts how harassment cut short her promising career: "I started out in retail, on a corner in the Lower East Side, but the other vendors were very crude, very 'macho.' Whenever I walked by they made these weird sucking noises...
...Tp critics, DEAL's steps are too little, too late...
...So, I went home fo'Bensonhurst and opened a 'crack house.' But my family and neighbors were not at all supportive of my 'un-ladylike' ambitions, so they formed a vigilante mob and torched my house...
...I think they were trying to undermine my self-esteem...
...She concedes, though, that "the goal of a 50-50 male-female split among money-launderers is running into resistance...
...Spode dismisses biological conjectures purporting to explain the inequality, adding that females are seldom invited along on important male-bonding rites of passage, like drive-by shootings...
...So, I went into wholesale to find a higher class of professional peer, maybe even a mentor who could show me the gropes.' But my fellow distributors claimed I was on their 'turf' and kept disrespecting me by dangling me out windows by my ankles...
...Says Dr...
...The one man I talked to while preparing our report was hyper-masculine: aggressive, dominating, muscular...
...Male dealers internalize the media's image of them," says Dr...
...The American Spectator October 1992 37...
...Media stereotypes victimize men as well...
...They call for a government program to study such problems further...
...Even worse, 86 women (67.7%) were portrayed as forsaking their careers only after sleeping with Sonny and/or Rico...
...Frankly, the industry's elder statespersons were not as receptive to our sensitivity training seminars as we had hoped, so now we're relying more on our rather high rate of attrition...
...CENTER FOR THE STUDY OF PROBLEMS* FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE CONTACT: STEVE SAILER REPORT CITES BIAS AGAINST WOMEN IN DRUG RACKETS "Aspiring Female Traffickers Lack Role Models," Notes Expert HANOVER, N.H.—While women have made gains in the controlled substances industry, they stilt comprise only 14.6% of all drug dealers...
...Gangster films in general have always been virulently phallocentric," observes Reed College Film Professor Charles Womyndaughter...
...They were quite insensitive about it," he recalls feeling...
...But given the median life expectancy of 24, we think it's more accurate to describe the sexist structure as a Young Boys Network...
Vol. 25 • October 1992 • No. 10
