Why is the so called "pay gap" relevant, but a much greater gap in workplace deaths (93/7) seen as a non issue? 2?

The nearly negligible and inconsequential wage gap between genders is a non issue, that's distracting us from the REAL wage gap. The obscene and ever growing wage gap between CEOs and workers. Wages have remained nearly flat for 40+ years while executive compensation and corporate profits have increased exponentially, each year!! When we address and correct this REAL wage gap, the other, minor one, will no longer be an issue.

"Why is the so called "pay gap" relevant, but a much greater gap in workplace deaths (93/7) seen as a non issue? 2?"

Let's face it, it is feminists that still hold the microphone regarding "gender" issues and in fact, all social issues. This is mandated by the fact that feminism, since mid-second wave has been a corporate elite finances SOCIAL CHANGE agenda. Thus, even today, the corporate elite Establishment media will promote the ideas and "studies" that have been made under the feminist ideology, without criticism.

That is the simple and straightforward answer. Of course, from this vantage point, anything goes. Feminist studies have actually made nonsensical claims that we KNOW to go against nature and reality. Yet this does not stop the incessant feminist propaganda. In fact, this has emboldened the new generation of hateful sjw's.

If a men's group held the microphone for only one minute, this workplace death issue as well as the father custody issue and a few other serious one's just might be heard. But that doesn't happen. Instead, the more -pressing- feminist issues of "ban bossy" and "sexist air conditioning" and scientist Matt Taylor's "sexist shirt" are far more important that the huge ratio of men dying in the workplace. Sad reality.

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Why does it matter that more men go into STEMs, but not matter that nursing and women's studies programs are female dominated? Why does it matter that slightly more men than women go into athletics, but not matter that vastly more women go into yoga, palates and aerobics?

Because we live in a gynocentric society that only focuses on one side of gender issues and ignores the other side.

The "pay gap" doesn't account for men and women typically being drawn to different industries and even different positions within the same industry. For example nursing appeals to more women than it does men. I don't think very many women work on oil rigs or in lumber mills or as millwrights for a number of reasons ranging from physical capacity to perform the job to complete lack of interest in the job (I have 0 interest in learning how to operate a front end loader for example).

It's the same for workplace deaths and injuries. Men are drawn to jobs like lumber mill work and other physically demanding jobs where workplace injuries are not only more likely to be time-loss incidents, but even result in death. These are jobs many women simply are not interested in, and many of these jobs the average woman lacks the physical strength and endurance to perform.

In other words, while they are both different issues, they have the same root cause--gender differences in work preference. You are being just as dishonest presenting the "workplace injury/death" case as people presenting the "wage gap" and your question is stupid. Workplace death and injury is not a "non-issue" but you are deliberately misrepresenting the actual problem for the sake of...what, sticking it to internet SJWs?