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Done a bit of reading, first time it appeared was in a novel and there is no actual legal grounds for any such order of survival on a ship, so if someone was to assault a male to stop them getting into a lifeboat, the only one doign a criminal act would be the assaulter not the man attempting to sit down.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Women_and_children_first

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Women_and_children_first#History



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