Women and children first?

[Sal9000]

Not really, when you look at the numbers. https://medium.com/silk-stories/women-and-children-first-9273e97289b0

[percentient]

Yeah, factors other than discrimination usually explain survival rates better. On MS Estonia in the 90s, where 800+ died, young fit male crew members were most likely to survive, and passengers, women and drunken Swedes were least likely.

 

But Titanic is actually an exception, and they really, really did apply the women and children first rule. The numbers you linked obscure the bias, but first class women were a massive 24 times less likely to die than first class men.

 

The trope "women and children first" is very real, but rarely enforced. Women on ships have a survival advantage only if it's enforced.

 

http://www.ifn.se/eng/publications/wp/2012/913

http://titanic.silk.co/