June 2014
The Only Woman in Town
In the 1960s, the small-town meetings in Canada were a man’s game
When I came to AA in 1966 I was 26. I was a divorced single mother, a bit of an oddity in a small town in British Columbia where, at that time, few women attended meetings—especially on a regular basis. The men outnumbered women 10 to one. Back then, many thought that AA women who had a drinking problem and were not closet drunks, had to be loose women and were the lowest rung on the ladder.
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