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Bill Burr - Equality for Women

Fair, fair point.
Kofisays...

Women and children first was and never has been. This means that it was not the case on the Titanic.

Conscription on the other hand ....

Douglaumsays...

It's called the Birkenhead drill, and according to a episode of QI it was only used twice, on the Birkenhead and on the Titanic.

Kofisaid:

Women and children first was and never has been. This means that it was not the case on the Titanic.

Conscription on the other hand ....

Velocity5says...

Men average more pay for "the same job" because they average higher productivity.

Look at the data for jobs where productivity is easy to quantify, like sales positions, and pay tracks productivity, regardless of gender.

That's basically Marissa Mayer's position.

Anybody who says "women get paid less for the same work" is claiming that correlation equals causation.

Science, it works.

xxovercastxxsays...

Second Mate Charles Lightoller: "Hadn't we better get the women and children into the boats, sir?"
Captain Edward Smith: "Women and children in and lower away."

So, in a way, you're right, because a lot of the crew did not interpret this order as "women and children first", they interpreted it as "women and children only". That's why many lifeboats were launched with empty seats and why 74% of the women passengers survived, but only 20% of the men.

Kofisaid:

Women and children first was and never has been. This means that it was not the case on the Titanic.

Conscription on the other hand ....

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