Female Bank Robbers--a New Trend or just Bonnie without Clyde?

Say Uncle emailed me today to tell me about a local bank robbery committed by a 90 pound woman and asked if I had noticed a trend of female bank robbers. I checked out the local story and saw that it was my bank that had been robbed this morning! Glad I went to another branch today just by coincidence.

Anyway, I don't know if there is a trend of female bank robbers, although there was the recent case of the Barbie Bandits in Georgia who held up a bank. That one, however, was some kind of inside job with the tellers of the bank. What I find interesting, though, is that now women are the ones doing the actual robberies--in the past, men generally did them or women waited for them in the getaway car. Women are still a much smaller percentage--about 10% of bank robberies but in Fairfax county in recent years, the rate rose to 25%--one woman even talked on the cell phone the whole time she robbed her banks--talk about multitasking!