It is starkly clear from the annotated passenger lists (showing who survived) that men did indeed put women and children first.   Check the Titanic Passengerslist, and you'll find that Mrs. T.W. Cavendish and Maid survived, but Mr. T.W. Cavendish did not, Mrs. M. Rothschild survived, but Mr. M. Rothschilde did not. Mrs. Arthur Ryerson and Maid, along with Miss Emily, Miss Susan, and Master Jack Ryerson survived, but Mr. Arthur Ryerson did not.

Only about a third of the passengers survived. In first class, however, only four women perished, of the one hundred fourty four, and only one of six children. However, only 57 of 175 men in first class survived. Eighty of the ninety three women in second class survived as well, and all of the children. Only about a quarter of those in third class survived--many of those were probably neither British nor American-

Curiously, only 14 of 168 men in second class survived--less than 10%, which is less than even the survival rate of men in third class, which was about 15%, and which one would assume would have been the lowest. Less than a quarter of the crew survived.