Women

THE first two Chicago AA women were contacted in the summer of 1939, a few weeks after the book, Alcoholics Anonymous had been released. At that time there was no Chicago group. There was only one man in the area, Earl T., who had effected his recovery through the Akron group and had been sober for two years at that time. AA was without a name and its total membership was less than 200. Women members were scarce.