But the ladies have been rising to prominent positions in L.A. bars. A couple of years ago Naomi Schimek took over as director of spirits for Aidan Demarest at Hollywood Roosevelt’s the Spare Room, ...

Until the end of a decades-long legal battle in the 1970s, bartending was mostly a man’s world in Chicago. More than 40 years later, female bartenders are in Chicago’s hotels, nightclubs, dive bars, ...