Polygamy and Islam
The Inequality in Numbers
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people are convicted daily for one crime or another.
A number of them—97% of whom are men—are
obliged to serve lengthy prison sentences.
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The modern industrial system too is responsible for
the lower proportion of men in society, death by
accident having become a matter of daily routine in
present times. There is no country in which
accidents do not take place every day on the streets,
in the factories and wherever sophisticated, heavy
machinery is handled by human beings. In this
modern industrial age, such accidents are so much
on the increase that a whole new discipline has
come into being—safety engineering. According to
data collected in 1967, in that year a total of 175,000
people died as the result of accidents in fifty
different countries. Most of these were men.
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In spite of safety engineering, casualties from
industrial accidents have increased. For instance, the
number of air accidents in 1988 was higher than ever
before. Similarly, experimentation in arsenals
continues to kill people in all industrialized countries,
but the death toll is never made public. Here again, it
is men who have the highest casualty rate.
