text: "Have they reached male rates? <crickets>"
  
  http://www.statcan.gc.ca/tables-tableaux/sum-som/l01/cst01/health79a-eng.htm
  
  Oddly enough, they nearly have, on a generational basis.  There's western nations where female drinking has officially caught male drinking, like the UK.  Canada's not quite there, but we got from a ratio of  2.23 to 1 in seniors to 1.16 to 1 in current teens.