Subject(s): Women Alcohol use -- Social Conditions -- Introduction - have a drink : Perspective on motherhood and drinking, double le standards- male and female drinking, changing drinking patterns and problem -- What encourage women to drink : Employment opportunities, shared drinking norms, material and social stresses, difficulties and dissatisfactions, developing a social perspective -- Women account for drinking differences : Talking to them about drinking, their ideas about why drinking has increased, their knowledge about problem drinking, views on women with alcohol problems -- Drinking careers : Experiences of alcoholic women -- Occupational hazards : material and social support, paid work, balancing roles -- Social circles : Drinking to be sociable, changed patterns of socializing, families and patterns and drinking, friends and drinking, drinking alone -- Times of low self esteem, sealing with unexpected, adjusting to motherhood -- Satisfaction or solace 2 case studies : pathways to drinking -- Preventing alcohol related harms : Publicising alcohol risks for women, awareness of official drinking advice, evaluating official drinking advice -- Promoting fair shares for all : Developing positive not harmful drinking, dealing with negative drinking, policy framework -- women & health