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The reason the workplace death rate for men is 100x that of women is because they are most certainly not doing "fuck all".
Men mostly had office jobs. Office workers do not "do" much. Sitting at a table with a plastic box and a phone is not particularly strenuous. Their diets paired with excessive smoking, drinking and inactivity for most of their days caused the high death rate. Office workers, even now, do not "do" very much in comparison to other professions.
The largest occupational percentile for men in the 1950's were jobs in manufacturing/production.
Yep. The 50โs was dudes working in the asbestos plants, chemical plants and automotive plants without any sort of PPE. I mean, folks in general were eating off of actually radioactive dinner plates made of (depleted) uranium and lead was in everything down to kids toys.
Health and safety for workers was better than the 1800โs, but certainly a far cry from what we have today.
Don't forget there were a lot of war vets in the mix too, with a good proportion of them that lost comrades in D-day and Market Garden. Mental health, were it tracked like it is today, would have clocked somewhere between "uh-oh" and "abysmal." Everyone self-medicated with alcohol, more work, and motorcycles... if at all.
How old are you? ๐
Mid 40's. Not an office worker
lol what
Men did not mostly have office jobs in the 1950s and 60s.
Even today, the workplace death rate for men is something like 20x that of women.
When and where?
Mad Men, all seasons. Obviously.