Experts are saying that there is a growing national trend of women turning to crime to finance their gambling habit. The surveys have been saying that women are increasingly becoming addicted to gambling.

"There's a big societal shift. Women didn't used to do this. Women are catching up to men,".

Recently there's a woman was a woman caught because she stole $150,000 from her employer and another $28,000 from the parent-teacher association chapter of which she was president, all to feed her gambling addiction.

She was sentenced in August to 18 months in prison.

The survey also says that ten years ago, 20 percent to 25 percent of calls to the gambling problem hotline involved female gamblers, but today the national problem gambling hotline -- 1-888-LASTBET -- gets about half of its calls from women.