Since the repeal of prohibition, U.S. women have made great strides toward alcoholic equality with men. In last week's Journal of the American Medical Association, Dr. David Benjamin. Rotman produced a chart showing that the ratio of female to male alcoholic addicts in Chicago climbed from 1-to-5 in 1931 to 1-to-2 in 1943.*
*By addicts, Dr. Rotman means people whose drunkenness gets them in trouble with police. His figures do not include "the groups who have social and economic prestige and remain therefore statistically sequestered."
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