suffer 91.4% of fatal injuries on the job, versus 8.6% for women. The most dangerous occupation in the United States is logging, where the fatal injury rate is 82.2 per 100,000 workers and where 96% of the people in the occupation are male. Underground mining […] is the 8th most dangerous, with 26.7 deaths per 100,000 workers and with 99% of the workers being male. Should we get more in those occupations to close that fatality ?”

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@tripu The other way around. Make work conditions safer for men. Not unsafer for women.

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Make work safer for everyone, definitely. I don’t think there’s even a debate there. Who argues for riskier jobs?

In the meantime, why not ask for parity in risky jobs, too? Being against parity there is equivalent to being in favour of 20× more men than women dying on the job. What could justify that preference?

Those are two completely different topics.

@trinsec

Besides, riskier jobs often come with a higher salary (that explains a fraction of the ). Don’t we want more women accessing higher-paying jobs?

@tripu I think the riskier jobs are usually muscle-requiring jobs. The risky jobs that was listed in the article favor strength. Men simply have more strength in their muscles than women on average.

@trinsec

Those two examples require physical strength. But many of the most dangerous and relatively well-paid occupations would suit weaker people equally well: electrician, diesel mechanic, aircraft mechanic, truck or bus driver, tractor or crane operator, zoo vet, traffic agent…

Besides, if we’re OK with differences in outcome based on biological differences (men die more because they’re stronger), many differences in outcome that are often considered discriminatory or unfair would be justified, too. Whatever interpretation we choose, let’s be coherent.

@tripu Those other professions you listed, I agree they could use more females. Problem is that so far most cultures have a clear idea of which jobs are more for males and which for females. It annoys me too, and hopefully we can break that trend.

And re your second point: Those men were not forced to do those dangerous jobs, were they? They get tempted by the money, so it’s up to them to gamble with their lives. If they succeed, they get paid nicely. Men don’t ‘die more because they’re stronger’, men might ‘die more because they take more risks’.

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But “most cultures have a clear idea of which jobs are more for males and which for females” for good reasons, right? There’s a reason there are way more male loggers and male bouncers, and you seemed to admit that.

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