This video is a good example that the 12 Steps of Alcoholics Anonymous need to be brought into the 21st Century. While Father Joseph C. Martin is doing a wonderful job in this video explaining some of the mechanics of the 12 Steps, it is clear that women have no place in his dialogue. Why is that? Why did the founding fathers of A.A. not look after women as they did after men? We know women suffer from alcoholism just like men do.
After many years of clinical research and findings, recovery experts have discovered that recovery can be gender specific and that women find recovery better in women’s groups and men recover better in groups for men. Would recovery be gender specific however, if the basic text of the 12 Steps included both genders when making reference to actions taken by an alcoholic? Or is the separation of genders a result of the seemingly discriminating text of the 12 Steps?
