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Ridicilous question. Do you really want to make a point with such nonsense. :)

By the way: Todays ships have always enough lifeboats for all passengers. If you go on a ship in some obscure country where this is not the law you should thing twice before going onboard.

Besides, I heard this was a tradition because in old times many women could not swim (or had not been allowed to learn it).