Sydney Morning Herald Commentator- "The Sinking Myth of Chivalry"

2012-05-07T22:33:02+00:00

Thats great, SMH talking about Paul Elam and AVfM.

Predictably, the study that feminists are bandying around from feminist Sweden as "proof" chivalry didn't exist, is a bit of a sham.

"I did some further analysis of the figures in the Mikael Elinder/Oscar Erixson study of maritime disasters I referenced in my previous post. They shed some additional light on what appears to me to be a somewhat biased handling of the data by the researchers. They also show David Futrelle’s assertion — that the ‘women and children first’ phenomenon was a “myth” — to be even more groundless than I originally thought...

...Crews have a much higher survival rate than passengers. If you remove crews from the ranks of men, and compare the survival rates of male passengers to female passengers, it turns out that men’s and women’s survival rates in the WCF Era overall were statistically identical — 28% for male passengers vs. 27% for female passengers — despite all the factors that mitigated against women faring well in those situations at the time (i.e. the more restrictive clothing, weaker body strength, and lower likelihood to be a physically fit swimmer).

And the reason for this overall equality in surviving can be directly attributed to the issuance of the WCF order. During incidents when the order was issued in the WCF Era, female passenger survival rates not only doubled male passenger rates (49% to 24%), but even exceeded those of the male crews (who had a 33% survival rate). Without the order, female passenger survival rates sunk (pardon the pun) to 10%, while male passenger rates climbed to 33%.

Pretty impressive performance for a ‘myth’ if you ask me.

The Elinder/Erixson study does not provide a gender breakdown for the crew. However, in a review of the 2003 book, Women Seafarers: Global Employment Policies And Practices, professors Heather Peters and Kwong-leung Tang note that the book indicates that current (2003) female seafaring employment is in the 1-2% range, and that the hiring of female seafaring crew began in the early part of the 20th century. It seems a fairly safe assumption that the female employment rate for ships in the Women and Children First Era (pre-1918) was nil."

http://www.feministcritics.org/blog/2012/04/19/more-on-the-%E2%80%98women-and-children-first%E2%80%99-era-noh/

Title	Sydney Morning Herald Commentator- "The Sinking Myth of Chivalry"
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Date	May 7, 2012 9:34 PM UTC (14 years ago)
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