Reply #88: What do you mean, "Right back at me"? [View All]

You haven't addressed the point at all. All of the dangerous professions are dominated by men... and the stat upthread is just workplace deaths. Men also dominate the industries in which their day-in-day-out exposure to stress and toxins shortens their lives.

If you want to have a pissing match about who had the worst jobs, you'll have to have it with someone else (despite the fact that I'd win). Talk to me when you've had to wear waders, a harness, ear protection and a gas mask (not a respirator, an actual gas mask) to do your job.

People go into education because they want the nonmonetary reward that they perceive from being teachers. If that weren't the case, salaries for teachers would increase, colleges would have to draw people out of the more glamorous lineman's school, and governments wouldn't be able to keep raising the educational bar required to be a teacher.