The sinking of the Titanic made the idea of "women and children first" more popular bc prior tragedies to that (especially maritime ones), most men would just abandon all of them and only a handful of women would survive. The Titanic is one of the only very few instances where more women and children survived than men because 1) some the crew on board took it to mean only help women and children and 2) even after the incident when the idea was more widely known and put into place...

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