A tourist takes a picture of Giorgia Boscolo, top right, aboard a gondola in Venice's Grand Canal, Italy, Friday, Aug. 20, 2010.
Giorgia Boscolo smiles beside her gondola, background, in Venice's Grand Canal, Italy, Friday, Aug. 20, 2010. After nine hundred years of male dominance in the profession, Venice is going to have its first official female gondolier. Her name is Giorgia Boscolo and she has passed the practical exam on Aug. 13. Boscolo is the first woman to pass this test, considered the most difficult step in the long road to become a gondolier. She must now pass one further exam in November before joining the guild of official gondoliers
Giorgia Boscolo, background right, rides a gondola in Venice's Grand Canal, Italy, Friday, Aug. 20, 2010.
Giorgia Boscolo, left, smiles aboard her gondola in Venice's Grand Canal, Italy, Friday, Aug. 20, 2010. After nine hundred years of male dominance in the profession, Venice is going to have its first official female gondolier. Her name is Giorgia Boscolo and she has passed the practical exam on Aug. 13. Boscolo is the first woman to pass this test, considered the most difficult step in the long road to become a gondolier. She must now pass one further exam in November before joining the guild of official gondoliers.
Venice's first female gondolier
