In its look at the increase in the number of women robbing banks, says Melissa McEwan at Shakesville:

The uptick in bank robbery committed by women correlates with the economic downtown, the head of the Nassau County police department's robbery squad says that women are primarily motivated by a need to “pay bills, get a little extra cash... They need diapers for the baby that kind of thing,” and yet the framing story is all about a thrill-seeking thief and the accompanying article photos are of the “Barbie Bandits”—blonde, teenage strippers who robbed a bank to go on a shopping spree. There's a real story to be told about desperate women who have no resources and no opportunities, but it's buried beneath yet another “hot chicks doing boy things” story.