MSN Reports Dangerous Jobs - No Mention of Men

	posted by Matt on 09:09 AM September 20th, 2005
	Well it's great they did it, an article on the most dangerous jobs. The author conveniently neglects to mention that the vast majority of those in these lines of work are men.

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write and complain (Score:1) by johnnyp on 10:34 AM September 20th, 2005 EST (#1) When I see these omissions, I write the source to let them know that 93% of workplace fatalities are suffered by men, and only 7% are suffered by women. I also ask the rhetorical question - what do you think would happen if the numbers were reversed. How would you have reported the story then? By the way - careerbuilders feedback form can be found here: http://feedback.msn.com/eform.aspx?productkey=care ers&CW=1&locale=en-us

And here is at least one source for job-deaths (Score:0) by Anonymous User on 11:51 AM September 20th, 2005 EST (#2) 92% of occupational deaths happen to men. http://www.bls.gov/news.release/cfoi.t04.htm

Re:And here is at least one source for job-deaths (Score:1) by johnnyp on 01:21 PM September 20th, 2005 EST (#4) the numbers for '04 are 93% to 7%. I think the numbers for a previous year was 92% to 8%

Re:And here is at least one source for job-deaths (Score:0) by Anonymous User on 02:06 PM September 20th, 2005 EST (#5) You're right. It's 93%. I don't recall where I got 92%. Thanks for pointing that out. Marc A.

Re:And here is at least one source for job-deaths (Score:1) by Kyo on 10:00 AM September 21st, 2005 EST (#6) Just checked that out, AU. I see that 24% of female occupational deaths (all 411 of them as opposed to over 5000 for men) are murders. I wouldn't be at all surprised to see some biased women's commission throw together something like: "Given a man and a woman, each having died on the job, the woman is two and a half times as likely to have been murdered!"

Re:write and complain (Score:0) by Anonymous User on 12:19 PM September 20th, 2005 EST (#3) Absolutely correct. Adam Jones writes about the unequal journalistic treatment of gender in war and the workplace.

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