I have been promoting this trying to discuss the pay gap by asking the question: "Would you be willing to take 10 times more risk to close the pay gap?".
For your info: "Equal Occupational Fatality Day" is somewhere beginning February.
How could it be February if women constitute just 10 percent of fatalities. It would have to be 90 percent of the way through the year, wouldn't it. In 2023, a Wall Street Journal editorial said it was in September of that year.
"Based on the BLS data for 2021 for workplace fatalities by gender (and assuming those figures will be approximately the same in 2022), the next “Equal Occupational Fatality Day” will occur almost ten years from now—on September 18, 2032. That date symbolizes how far into the future women will be able to continue working before they experience the same loss of life that men experienced in 2022 from work-related deaths."
Makes sense in the way that he conceived it. Actual deaths, not as a percentage.
Economist Mark Perry used to publish "Equal Occupational Fatality Day,: which mimicked Equal Pay Day. We should update that and keep it current.
I have been promoting this trying to discuss the pay gap by asking the question: "Would you be willing to take 10 times more risk to close the pay gap?".
For your info: "Equal Occupational Fatality Day" is somewhere beginning February.
How could it be February if women constitute just 10 percent of fatalities. It would have to be 90 percent of the way through the year, wouldn't it. In 2023, a Wall Street Journal editorial said it was in September of that year.
In February more men died of "Occupational Fatality" that year then women will die because of "Occupational Fatality" during all of the year.
10% of 365 is 36 days.
Let me defer to Mark Perry, who stopped publishing, sorry to say.
https://www.aei.org/carpe-diem/equal-pay-day-this-year-is-march-15-the-next-equal-occupational-fatality-day-wont-be-until-september-18-2032/
Everything depends on how you define the equal day.
Personally I think going to 2032 in 2022 is weird.
But it is saying basically the same thing
"Based on the BLS data for 2021 for workplace fatalities by gender (and assuming those figures will be approximately the same in 2022), the next “Equal Occupational Fatality Day” will occur almost ten years from now—on September 18, 2032. That date symbolizes how far into the future women will be able to continue working before they experience the same loss of life that men experienced in 2022 from work-related deaths."
Makes sense in the way that he conceived it. Actual deaths, not as a percentage.