Shipwrecked: Women and children first?
Barely three months short of the centenary of the sinking of the Titanic, which went down on 15 April 1912, another shipwreck has galvanised the worlds attention. With tragic stories of loss, chaos and fear, shipwrecks have always fascinated onlookers, and been used to convey moral lessons. The Costa Concordia has reignited the potent debates over how one should behave in an emergency shipwreck situation. It is clear from the media response that the old question of whether women and children should go first remains just as significant in 2012 as it seemed in 1912....
Source: PhysOrg - Monday, 23 January
Related articles:
- Older News
- 13Vote! Big threat to women CEOs? Other women
Futurity.org - Thursday, 17 May
- 4Vote! Top-educated women picking family track
- 5Vote! Fallopian Tube Removal May Lower Risk of Deadly Ovarian Cancer
Yahoo Science News - Tuesday, 8 May
- 3Vote! Greater numbers of highly educated women are having children, bucking recent history
LabSpaces - Wednesday, 2 May
- 3Vote! Meat eating behind humans' spreading over the globe
e! Science News - Friday, 20 April
- 4Vote! Baby curbs risk-taking in women, not men
- 6Vote! Women with rheumatoid arthritis and lupus give birth to fewer children
PhysOrg - Thursday, 16 February
- 6Vote! Motherhood 'detrimental' to women's scientific careers, study concludes
- 8Vote! Salvage workers begin pumping fuel from Italian shipwreck
- 12Vote! Study says children of women exposed to chemotherapy in pregnancy develop as well as other children
- 5Vote! HIV-exposed children at high risk of language delay
- 10Vote! Eat fish, build up brainpower
- 10Vote! Should nuns be given the pill for health reasons?
- 12Vote! Orange sweet potato reduces risk of vitamin a deficiency in children and women in Mozambique
- 14Vote! Improved living environments can reduce health problems for women and children
- 12Vote! More children in Europe with Swedish family policy
- 19Vote! Congenital malaria affects more children than expected
SciDev.Net - Monday, 5 September, 2011 - 11Vote! 2 women, 2 kids killed in Pittsburgh flash floods
(AP)
- 17Vote! Pregnant women in Vancouver may not be getting enough vitamin D
- 17Vote! Many top US scientists wish they had more children
