Equal Pay Day, as one activist group describes it, “symbolizes how far into the year women must work to earn what men earned in the previous year.” It was marked March 14 this year in Washington, with a proclamation from President Biden, a statement from the Labor Department, and a press release from the Census Bureau. But to understand the folly of comparing aggregate statistics, consider Equal Occupational Fatality Day.
That’s a commemoration coined as a thought experiment some years ago by economist Mark Perry, a scholar at the American Enterprise Institute, who updated his numbers again this week. America’s most dangerous job in 2021, according to the official data, was held by loggers, who were 96% men. Also high on the list were roofers, 97.1% men, and electrical power line installers and repairers, 99.3% men. The most sex-balanced occupation in the top 10 most dangerous was trash collecting, 87.9% men.
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