10 Unfuhgeddable Facts About Women in the Mafia written by Cristen Conger on Howstuffworks.com...

1.The traditional role women play in the Camorra crime family involved housecleaning, cooking — and cutting up cocaine and heroin for distribution.
2.In 1983, a Palermo court ruled that women didn’t have the brains to get involved with mafia business. Twelve years later, the government would indict 89 women for mafia-related crimes, and in 2000, police arrested 100 mob ladies.
3.Arrested in 2001, Camorra godmother Maria Licciardi plays such a powerful role in mob activity, she’s was considered one of Italy’s Top 30 Most-Wanted criminals and was eventually taken to the country’s toughest prison.
4.Rival Neopolitan godmother Erminia Giuliano (nicknamed ‘Heavenly’) also earned a spot on that Most-Wanted list, although police caught her before Licciardi.
5.History’s most famous mafia woman is Assunta Maresca, called La Pupetta, or Little Doll. In 1955, the pregnant Pupetta gunned down her husband’s murderer and bore her child in prison.
6.The body of La Pupetta’s victim, Tony Esposito, was riddled with 29 bullet holes.
7.Unlike Camorra family in Naples, the Cosa Nostra crime family is much more restrictive toward women due to Sicilian regard for maintaining traditional gender roles.
8.Though often married, mafia men take on mistresses “because it reinforces his strength (via Associated Press).”
9.In 2002, high-ranking women in the Graziano and Cava crime families broke out into a deadly shootout after trading insults at a local hair salon.
10.Women are becoming more active in American mob families as well. In 2010, an FBI sweep of the Gambino syndicate in New York included one female defendant. FBI agent Richard Kolko told CNN: “It’s extremely rare to grab up a woman in an organized crime case because it’s a male-oriented criminal society.”