Over 100 years after 'Titanic' sank, the origins and true meaning of “women and children first” remain a source of confusion.

Three small towns fell silent on January 31 as they pay respect to the 133 victims of the UK’s worst peacetime shipping disaster – dubbed the forgotten Titanic. Unlike the 1912 sinking ...

Image caption, Titanic was the biggest and most luxurious ... In Edwardian times, there was a view that men took a back seat for women and children, which may be where this myth comes from.

Don’t miss “Unsinkable Women: Stories and Songs from ... the sinking with them and inspired her classic children’s book, “Polar, the Titanic Bear.” Margaret Tobin Brown – the ...