A Woman’s Lifetime Earnings Lost To Pay Gap Could Feed A Family Of Four For 37 Years

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33. the actual source of your pretty pic has some more meaningful info

www.bls.gov/iif/oshwc/cfoi/cfch0008.pdf

Unfortunately, I can't copy and paste the pics in a pdf.

I'll direct you to:

Manner in which fatal work injuries occurred, 2009*
"More fatal work injuries resulted from transportation incidents than from any other event. Highway incidents alone accounted for one out of every five fatal work injuries in 2009."
(Assaults and violent acts accounted for 18%, and homicides, see a later graph, accounted for a significantly higher proportion of female deaths.)


Fatal injury events, by gender of worker, 2009*
"A higher percentage of fatal work injuries to women resulted from highway incidents and homicides than to men. A higher percentage of fatal work injuries to men resulted from contact with objects and equipment, falls, and exposure to harmful substances or environments."


When we see the detalis, your thesis just doesn't hold up really well. Yes, falls from roofs are much more common among men. Are roofers highly paid where you are? Not where I am.

But highway and transportation incidents (like, plane crashes)? Strikes me that many more men travel on business than women do. I'm thinking that, oh, CEO or travelling sales rep isn't really what people think of when they think "dangerous job".


Four most frequent work-related fatal injury events, 1992–2009*
(Highway incidents way up top, followed by homicides, falls and struck by object.)

Bizarrely, there were 1044 homicides on the job in 1992, 521 in 2009: 12% of the total. A reduction of just about exactly half, but still pretty weird. And just not something that I think factors into the "dangerous job" assessment. Depending on how many of them were police officers, security guards, etc., I guess. Occupations traditionally resistent to women hires ...