Women are oppressed

Men only make up 4 out of 5 suicide and homicide victims, 7 out of 10 homeless people, and over 9 out of 10 workplace fatalities. Men only live 7 years less than women on average. They only receive 63% longer sentences on average than women do for the same crimes, with women significantly likelier to avoid charges and convictions and twice as likely to avoid incarceration if convicted—gender disparities in sentencing being far larger than the racial disparities you always hear about.

Women outnumber men in the undergraduate, graduate, and doctoral levels of education, yet they still get preference in college admissions. They are hired into stem at a ratio of 2:1 against men with the same credentials. But we should never stop pretending like women are still being oppressed. It would be a shame if they ever lost their monopoly on victimhood.

Suicide

In 2020, the suicide rate among males was 4 times higher (22.0 per 100,000) than among females (5.5 per 100,000).

Suicide. (2022, June). National Institute of Mental Health (NIMH). https://www.nimh.nih.gov/health/statistics/suicide (https://archive.ph/IiJeM)

Homelessness

There are 260,284 men compared to 106,119 women. Thus, men are the majority of individuals experiencing homelessness (70 percent) followed by women (29 percent).

Demographic data project: Gender and individual homelessness. (2019, July 9). National Alliance to End Homelessness. https://endhomelessness.org/demographic-data-project-gender-and-individual-homelessness/ (https://archive.ph/FlFPi)

Workplace fatalities

In Canada, more than 97% of all reported workplace fatalities between 1993 and 2005 were male (Bilsker et al., 2010). Similarly, in 2012, 92% of all workplace fatalities in the US, and 96% in Australia occurred amongst men. (pg.214)

Stergiou-Kita, M., Mansfield, E., Bezo, R., Colantonio, A., Garritano, E., Lafrance, M., Lewko, J., Mantis, S., Moody, J., Power, N., Theberge, N., Westwood, E., & Travers, K. (2015). Danger zone: Men, masculinity and occupational health and safety in high risk occupations. Safety Science, 80, 213–220. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.ssci.2015.07.029

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4,761 men dying on the job compared to 386 women in 2017. The fatality rate for men was about 10 times that of women: 5.7 per 100,000 vs. 0.6 per 100,000 for women.

DeVore, C. (2018, December 19). Fatal employment: Men 10 times more likely than women to be killed at work. Forbes. https://www.forbes.com/sites/chuckdevore/2018/12/19/fatal-employment-men-10-times-more-likely-than-women-to-be-killed-at-work/

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Even with the significant strides made to reduce workplace fatalities, 5,250 US workers died in 2018 because of occupational injuries, and 92% of the workers who died were men. The gender disparity in workplace fatalities has remained steady for the past 30 years.

Babbs, G. (2020, June 9). Men hard at work. Public Health Post. https://www.publichealthpost.org/databyte/men-hard-at-work/

Life expectancy

the gender gap in life expectancy increased. In 1920, life expectancy at birth for females was two years greater than for males. By the 1970s, the female advantage was over seven years, but has declined since then, to six years in 2000 when life expectancy was 74 for males and 80 for females… Men are three times as likely as women to die from injuries (unintentional injuries, suicide, or homicide)

The Gender Gap in U.S. Mortality. (2002, December 1). PRB. https://www.prb.org/resources/the-gender-gap-in-u-s-mortality/

Homicide victims

79 per cent of all homicide victims globally are male (pg.13)

United Nations Office on Drugs and Crime. (2013). Global study on homicide 2013 : trends contexts data. UNODC. https://www.unodc.org/documents/gsh/pdfs/2014_GLOBAL_HOMICIDE_BOOK_web.pdf

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In the United States in 2005, 18,124 individuals were murdered: 79% of them male. (pg.182)

Synnott, A. (2009). Re-thinking men: Heroes, villains and victims. Ashgate Publishing.

Sentencing

This study finds dramatic unexplained gender gaps in federal criminal cases. Conditional on arrest offense, criminal history, and other pre-charge observables, men receive 63% longer sentences on average than women do. Women are also significantly likelier to avoid charges and convictions, and twice as likely to avoid incarceration if convicted. There are large unexplained gaps across the sentence distribution, and across a wide variety of specifications, subsamples, and estimation strategies. The data cannot disentangle all possible causes of these gaps, but they do suggest that certain factors (such as childcare and offense roles) are partial but not complete explanations, even combined. (pg.17)

Starr, S. B. (2012). Estimating gender disparities in federal criminal cases. SSRN Electronic Journal. https://doi.org/10.2139/ssrn.2144002

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Consistent with prior research, females were treated more leniently than males for multiple outcomes. Females received lower bond amounts and were less likely to be held before trial in comparison to males (Demuth & Steffensmeier, 2004; Turner & Johnson, 2006). Additionally, convicted females were less likely to be sentenced to prison.4 (pg.414)

Goulette, N., Wooldredge, J., Frank, J., & Travis, L., III. (2015). From initial appearance to sentencing: Do female defendants experience disparate treatment? Journal of Criminal Justice, 43(5), 406–417. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jcrimjus.2015.07.003

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As expected in our first hypothesis, female defendants received more lenient sentence outcomes than their similarly situated male counter-parts. Second, legal factors accounted for a considerable portion of the gender gap in sentencing. However, even after accounting for these legal factors, a sizeable gender gap remained in that male defendants continued to be sentenced more harshly than their female counterparts (pg.261)

Doerner, J. K., & Demuth, S. (2014). Gender and Sentencing in the Federal Courts: Are Women Treated More Leniently? Criminal Justice Policy Review, 25(2), 242–269. https://doi.org/10.1177/0887403412466877

Women get the majority of undergraduate, graduate and doctoral degrees

A 1995 report by the Department of Labor found that 6 million women overall had advances at their job that would not have been possible without affirmative action. The percentage of women physicians tripled between 1970 and 2002, from 7.6 percent to 25.2 percent, and in 2009 women were receiving a majority of bachelor's, master's, and doctoral degrees, according to the American Association of University Women.

Massie, V. M. (2016, May 25). White women benefit most from affirmative action — and are among its fiercest opponents. Vox. https://www.vox.com/2016/5/25/11682950/fisher-supreme-court-white-women-affirmative-action

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For the first time, women make up the majority of students in U.S. medical schools. In 2019, 46,878 medical school students (50.5 percent) are women and 45,855 (49.4 percent) are men, according to a new report from the Association of American Medical Colleges (AAMC).

The Big Number: Women now outnumber men in medical schools. (2019, December 20). Washington Post (Washington, D.C.: 1974). https://www.washingtonpost.com/health/the-big-number-women-now-outnumber-men-in-medical-schools/

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Women earned the majority of doctoral degrees in 2020 for the 12th straight year and outnumber men in grad school 148 to 100

Perry, M. J. (2021, October 14). Women Earned the Majority of Doctoral Degrees in 2020 for the 12th Straight Year and Outnumber Men in Grad School 148 to 100. Aei.org. https://www.aei.org/carpe-diem/women-earned-the-majority-of-doctoral-degrees-in-2020-for-the-12th-straight-year-and-outnumber-men-in-grad-school-148-to-100/

Hiring preferences

Contrary to prevailing assumptions, men and women faculty members from all four fields preferred female applicants 2:1 over identically qualified males with matching lifestyles (single, married, divorced), with the exception of male economists, who showed no gender preference. (pg.5360)

Williams, W. M., & Ceci, S. J. (2015). National hiring experiments reveal 2:1 faculty preference for women on STEM tenure track. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America, 112(17), 5360–5365. https://doi.org/10.1073/pnas.1418878112

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The trial found assigning a male name to a candidate made them 3.2 per cent less likely to get a job interview. Adding a woman's name to a CV made the candidate 2.9 per cent more likely to get a foot in the door.

Belot, H. (2017, June 29). Blind recruitment trial to boost gender equality making things worse, study reveals. ABC News. https://www.abc.net.au/news/2017-06-30/bilnd-recruitment-trial-to-improve-gender-equality-failing-study/8664888

Missing women receive disproportionate media attention

With respect to gender, Table 3 demonstrates that women are overrepresented in the media population when compared to the women in the FBI Active Missing Person File (z = -3.20, p < .001). Predictably, men see a reciprocal underrepresentation (z = 3.20, p < .001). (pg.299)

Sommers, Z. (2016). Missing White Woman Syndrome: An empirical analysis of race and gender disparities in online news coverage of missing persons. Journal of Criminal Law and Criminology, 106(2), 4. https://scholarlycommons.law.northwestern.edu/jclc/vol106/iss2/4

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Previous research has suggested that the print media over-report on certain demographics of abducted children…newspapers dedicated more words to female victims than male victims (pg.151)

Taylor, J., Boisvert, D., Sims, B., & Garver, C. (2013). An examination of gender and age in print media accounts of child abductions. Criminal Justice Studies (Abingdon, England), 26(2), 151–167. https://doi.org/10.1080/1478601x.2012.724683

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white women were much more likely to be the subject of news coverage relative to their proportions among missing persons, and women in general, were significantly more likely than men to be covered.

Demby, G. (2017, April 13). What we know (and don’t know) about “missing white women syndrome.” NPR. https://www.npr.org/sections/codeswitch/2017/04/13/523769303/what-we-know-and-dont-know-about-missing-white-women-syndrome

Further readings:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Missing_white_woman_syndrome

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sentencing_disparity#Evidence

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Male_expendability

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gynocentrism#In_contemporary_society