A news headline caught my eye:
“Workplace deaths increase amid concerns over ‘belt-tightening”.
I clicked through to the article and read the sub-heading:
“The number of people killed at work increased by 24 in the past year, with experts warning that cutbacks and ‘belt-tightening’ could be taking their toll across industry, official figures revealed.”
Then I went to the linked Health & Safety Executive (HSE) website to examine the figures. As it happens, I was only interested in one thing: what was the breakdown of workplace deaths by the sex of the victim?
Why was I interested in only this?
Well, I have found after many years of compiling information on such things, that whenever statistics are reported where men are over-represented in a ‘victim’ category, this salient fact is never analysed or discussed. The men are disappeared.
I wanted to see if this disappearing act might be absent for once, but it turned out to be another case in point. I fear that this sort of thing may not end in my lifetime (although there is some accurate reporting out there).
Hunting the men down
I couldn’t find the info presented on the HSE site and the news article made no mention of the sex of the dead workers.
So I did some digging around the HSE site and found this (PDF) which informed me that 3 times more men than women die from occupational cancer and there were higher rates of workplace injury for men than for women.
But nowhere I could find in article after article or within the HSE report itself, how many of the 171 worker deaths in England and Wales were men and how many were women.
So, I looked at the HSE General statistics tables here and this finally gave me a breakdown by sex, but it was presented in a strange way.
The figures were not listed comparatively as you’d expect and as perhaps, any schoolchild would be required to present in a homework assignment. No. The government study requires us to compile results for ourselves from separate spreadsheets (Men – Women), if we want to compare workplace deaths of men and women.
No problem, I did just that and here it is:
The comparison the HSE should have done
N.B.These spreadsheet figures differ from the figures published here, but it’s not important to this investigation.
All kinds of stats are looked at and remarked upon and analysed and compared by the HSE and the news media, but not the most obvious finding and the one that should be of most concern: workplace deaths are almost exclusively a tragedy afflicting men.
The apparent determination to leave this unsaid is remarkable.
Either there is a deliberate decision to not mention the massive disparity in male and female deaths, or else it is not considered important that virtually 100% of workplace deaths are to men. In either case, we have a travesty.
Then again, the same thing happens with homelessness, where over 90% of people on the streets are men.
And with suicide where 80% of the dead are men. (info)
80 men kill themselves every week in the UK,
but you won’t ever hear it mentioned on the news
And police officer deaths where 99% are men. (info)
Figures as at 2004
And military deaths where over 98% are men. (info)
And victims of assault where over 75% of victims are men. (info)
Crimestoppers
What it means
So, why are women so poorly represented in the death figures?
Why aren’t women demanding more risk at work the same way that they demand more female MP’s and more female company directors?
Surely ‘women’s rights’ isn’t just about equal benefits, is it? It’s not just about the top jobs, the pleasant jobs and the easy jobs, right?
What’s interesting is that ‘women’s groups’ have nothing to say about these death figures and don’t care about them. Likewise the government and media have nothing to say about it.
If the figures were reversed, however, then these same people would demand that something must be done to rectify the root causes of what would be seen as an injustice against women.
This is after all, the very definition of Feminism: Equality when it suits and preferential treatment most of the time.
The answer is right in front of us
Of course, the answer to why more men die is down to the choices that men and women make in their employment. There are other factors such as capability, necessity and unwilling choices, but it still comes down to the fact that men choose to do ( and are more able to do) more difficult and more dangerous work than women.
A similar situation could apply to a number of things.
For example, if the figures weren’t for workplace deaths and instead, represented the number of engineers working at a big company, we would have: 119 male engineers and 1 female.
Well, that’s regarded as a problem, right? Equalities busy-body’s would want to know what the company was doing to ‘rectify’ this ‘unacceptable’ situation. Why does the company ‘discriminate’ against female engineers? When will the disparity be reduced?
Women demand equal opportunities, right?
But when the situation is grim: 119 men dead, 1 woman dead. There’s not a sound, not even a whisper of comment from women, women’s groups, government or media. In fact, they go out of their way to leave the most obvious fact unsaid and even hidden from public awareness.
It seems that where men pay a heavy price compared to women… well, the men don’t actually exist.
Whereas, where women pay a heavy price compared to men… well, that’s a situation I’ve yet to see.
References
- HSE Summary for 2010/2011 – here
- HSE General statistics tables here -
- HSE breakdown by sex: Men – Women
Interesting article. In your conclusion you briefly mention unwilling choices as a factor but didn’t mention preferential treatment as a factor. You have covered it in a different video but it would fit well in your conclusion, women make up 2% of police dead not because men are more capable or willing to take all the life threatening danger(although they are) but because female PO’s are kept away from dangerous situations and shift patterns or it’s ensured that female po’s also have extra support from male police.. This also applies to the military, fire brigade and likely many of the other employers where men have such a high proportion of suffering.
Preferential treatment also has alot to do with suicides and homelessness with such a high amount of female only support and indeed women being rushed to the top of housing lists by virtue of falling pregnant.
I can’t think of areas where women pay a heafty price compared to men off the top of my head, possibly child birth? In terms of death rate anyway.
I agree that preferential treatment is definitely a factor and as you point out, I covered this in a film. Now that you’ve mentioned it, I’m not sure why this angle was not in my mind to make part of the article.
I think I was concentrating on the fields where no women were to be found at all like in construction. In work where there are men and women in fairly equal numbers, it is still the case that men are injured disproportionately compared to women. Even in accountancy or banking, the worker who puts their back out lifting something heavy or shifting the furniture or whatever, is generally a male worker because it was a female worker who stood back and asked him to move it!
And of course, you are absolutely right about the far higher risks that men face in police work, the military and the fire service. Women are spared at the direct expense of men.
As for childbirth, well, it’s clearly not a fair point of comparison for obvious reasons, but even if it was, can we honestly say that over the last 50-60 years, anybody seriously worries about women dying in childbirth? It’s a possibility of course, but it’s not ‘cold-sweats’ common.
Another excellent article, MWM. I am going to print this one and distribute it here at MSU. Thanks for everything you do!
Much appreciated and I hope you don’t get too much grief for daring to talk about men. It’s not a welcome topic as you well know.
I used your video in my articles and a picture I found online that match pretty good with political correctness.
http://3.bp.blogspot.com/-IDevlWkZsig/TrtqLksAfGI/AAAAAAAAAI4/Idmv3wPNINY/s1600/male+worker+deadth+.jpg
fell free to use it all you want.
http://mrafront.blogspot.com/2011/11/making-your-neighborhood-save.html
Good work. I like the pictures you’re showing, you pick up on the BS very well.
I particularly laughed at the picture of the female weightlifter in the trigonometry book. On and on it goes. You couldn’t make this stuff up.
I found this on a feminist site, complaining about Men in the “creative class” make nearly twice as much as women
now look at the facts that even the feminist site post but ignored
http://cdn.theatlanticcities.com/img/upload/2011/10/26/WCC_Exhibit05_thumb.jpg
Same education women are majority men work harder they deserve more money.
here is the stat
this is awesome
http://www.theatlanticcities.com/jobs-and-economy/2011/11/income-disparity-women-creative-class/359/
Thanks for this article MWM…
As ever, you do the male race proud. I hope that more men and boys read this and appreciate what you are doing on their behalf. I will keep spreading the word about the quality work you do.
Thanks for your support, Blaise.
A total pleasure MWM…
I’ve just seen a program about WW2, called “Bomber Command” about RAF survivor pilots…
One man reflected on his evening before the morning flight. He mentioned that the evening meal was fabulous; a meal of eggs and bacon. Afterwards, he tells us about the fact he went to his room to take a wash and clean his teeth.
Whist cleaning his teeth he recalls…”This may sound silly…but I remember looking at myself in the mirror and wondering if this would be the last time I cleaned my teeth”
That kind of says it all for me; especially when you get whining feminists complaining about pathetic trivialities.
Yes, the sacrifice of men that we don’t recognise enough for my liking. In fact, we honour it barely at all.
I recently watched a film about the men who fought the Battle of Britain. Some of what I heard made me fume and an article is to come about this…
I look forward to reading it MWM…
This Sunday I will be remembering the fallen. Let’s hope that some feminists reflect and think on their sacrifice. I won’t hold my breath, but you never know.
MWM,
You said in one of your videos that both sexes prefer to be led by men. Where can I find some evidence for that? I’d like to use it in the near future.
Thanks
Film is Patriarchy and the reference is DW Winnicott, the title of the book is shown on screen. He only mentions it briefly in relation to children’s development (i.e. why do natural leaders tend to be boys?) but I believe there is fuller discussion in his essay “Some thoughts on the meaning of the word democracy”.
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/femail/article-1302096/Men-best-bosses-Women-just-moody.html
“”Men are the best bosses: Women at the top are just too moody (and it’s women themselves who say so)”
Had to sit through a Veteran’s Day event yesterday, fully half of it co-opted by feminist filth exaggerating female sacrifice to steal attention away from the deserving men. Fucking pathetic and disgusting in the most base way.
Have a go http://www.quickmeme.com/Female-Supremacist-Hack/?upcoming
It is not ‘Men and Women’ of the armed forces, or the police force, or the fire force, or anything else other than the men and women of the air conditioned office desk jockey paper pushing bureaucrat force, until it ACTUALLY IS. 90 years into women’s ‘suffrage’ and yet to see to front line battle while pissing and moaning for attention and praise. It’s enough to make you vomit.
We salute our brave MEN of the armed forces.
We salute our brave MEN of the emergency response teams.
We salute our brave MEN of the police and fire academies.
And we are grateful to the brave ***MEN*** WORKING to build and maintain our civilization.
They are trying to outlaw “Men Working” signs, can you fucking believe it? NOBODY HAS EVER SEEN A “WOMAN WORKING” on our roads.
Interestingly, from the statistics you found, while males are 119 times more likely to suffer the ultimate reminder of the risk inherent in their job, the male rate for less serious incidents was only twice that of females.
There is said to be a ratio of incidents of a less serious nature for each workplace fatality, however the female numbers do not reflect that, leading one to opine that the number of more trivial incidents which lead females to take over three days off work, is far out of proportion to the risk inherent in the tasks they are carrying out. To wit- while not performing dangerous tasks, they are still ‘milking’ the system in comparison to male workers.
Thanks for this excellent observation. It was not something I picked up on.
I love you! I have been writing letters and trying to submit articles to newspapers, magazines, rabid feminist columnists for years with occasional success. I felt like a lone voice because as you know men are their own worst enemy with their quiet acceptance and shoulder shrugging indifference to the most blatant bigotry.
Then I came across your work-succinct, incisive, fact based and providing irrefutable proof of the male hatred inherent in our culture during the last three to four decades.
Thank you- from the bottom of my heart.
Do you ever appear in the mainstream media or are your views considered too radical? Please keep up the unbelievably good work.
Well, it’s nice to be loved! Thanks for your support.
The Feminism films were transcribed and made into a radio show in Portsmouth. Other than that, I’m strictly on Youtube and the net. Some of my interviewees are media personalities, however.
Check out some links here, there are more of us working in this area than you might think.