Sure, okay. I'll see your isolated early 20th century maritime disaster and raise you the 1991 Bangladesh Cyclone, in which 90% of the 140,000 people who died were women. (Thread)
OR Hurricane Katrina, during which the majority of victims trapped in their homes were African-American women
OR that in the 2003 heatwave that hit the European Union, more women died than men, with French victim populations mostly comprised of elderly women
OR that studies show, just generally, that women and children are 14 times more likely to die in a disaster than men
AND when they survive, women are more vulnerable to (in no particular order) malnutrition, waterborne diseases, sex trafficking, and domestic violence. But sure, the Titanic should probably be our benchmark.
Also, if you liked this thread, you may like this interesting meta-analysis of 141 disasters from 1981-2002: https://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cfm?abstract_id=874965
Finally, now may be a good time to put in a plug for the Gender and Disasters Network (which doesn’t just focus on women or use the tragic drowning deaths of men to make some kind of gross misogynistic point). Learn more here: http://www.gdnonline.org/ 
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