UBC professor Mieke Koehoorn, who specializes in gender, work and health at the school of population and public health, was interviewed for a Vancouver Sun article on the sacrifice men make at work.
He said there is often a social-status element to workplace injuries for men and lower-income men tend to work in the most precarious jobs.
“The risk of death and severe injury are largely borne by men in lower socio-economic groups, so there is a class, as well as a gender dimension,” he said.
