Facts Feminists Never Mention
January 9, 2015
MARK PERRY at the American Enterprise institute presents some interesting charts related to common feminist fallacies. Here’s one with his commentary:
Every year the National Committee on Pay Equity (NCPE) publicizes its “Equal Pay Day” to bring public attention to the gender pay gap. “Equal Pay Day” last year fell on April 14, and allegedly represents how far into 2014 the average woman had to continue working to earn the same income that the average man earned in 2013. Inspired by Equal Pay Day, I introduced “Equal Occupational Fatality Day” in 2010 to bring public attention to the huge gender disparity in work-related deaths every year in the US. “Equal Occupational Fatality Day” tells us how many years into the future women would be able to work before they experienced the same number of occupational fatalities that occurred in the previous year for men.
The Bureau of Labor Statistics (BLS) released new data last September on workplace fatalities for 2013, and I was able to then calculate a new “Equal Occupational Fatality Day.” As in previous years, the chart above shows the significant gender disparity in workplace fatalities in 2013: 4,101 men died on the job (93.1% of the total) compared to only 302 women (6.9% of the total). The “gender occupational fatality gap” in 2013 was considerable — nearly 14 men died on the job last year for every woman who died while working.
Based on the new BLS data, the next “Equal Occupational Fatality Day” will occur more than ten years from now – on July 31, 2025. That date symbolizes how far into the future women will be able to continue working before they experience the same loss of life on the job that men experienced in 2013 from work-related deaths. Because women tend to work in safer occupations than men on average, they have the advantage of being able to work for more than a decade longer than men before they experience the same number of male occupational fatalities in a single year. To achieve equal pay, do women really want equal representation in the most dangerous occupations (logging, mining, farming, fishing, correctional officers, fire fighter, etc.) if that means that thousands of women will be killed or injured every year while working?
