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posted by Fnord666 on Sunday February 03 2019, @11:33PM   Printer-friendly
from the unisex dept.

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In 1987, a man, a woman, and their daughter attended a Tchaikovsky concert at the Hollywood Bowl. The most notable thing about their outing, all these years later, is something that actually wasn't the least bit unusual: The two women waited in an interminably long line for the bathroom, while the man did not.

What separates their uncomfortable experience from those of innumerable others is that the man in their party was a California state senator. After witnessing just how long his family members had to wait, he introduced legislation to guarantee the state's women more toilets.

In the three decades since, dozens of cities and states have joined the cause of "potty parity," the somewhat trivializing nickname for the goal of giving men and women equal access to public toilets. These legislative efforts, along with changes to plumbing codes that altered the ratio of men's to women's toilets, have certainly helped imbalances in wait times, but they haven't come close to resolving them.

"It still remains a huge problem today, overall," says Kathryn Anthony, an architecture professor at the University of Illinois who has studied the issue for more than a decade. The issue persists for many reasons: the exigencies of real estate, the building codes that govern construction, and, of course, sexism.

Source: https://www.theatlantic.com/family/archive/2019/01/women-men-bathroom-lines-wait/580993/


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  • (Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Monday February 04 2019, @01:32PM (1 child)

    by Anonymous Coward on Monday February 04 2019, @01:32PM (#796116)

    Talking to the cleaners in my work building I discovered that the main problem in the women's toilets was that they squat on the seat.
    Yes. On the seat. So their ass doesn't have to touch the seat.
    This causes several problems the first of which is that the toilet seats break.
    The second is that the body fluids spray wider than they would compared to if the person's ass was on the seat closer to the bowl.
    It's disgusting to clean up.

  • (Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Monday February 04 2019, @01:35PM

    by Anonymous Coward on Monday February 04 2019, @01:35PM (#796118)

    There are a couple of ways to tell that you have Chinese or Indian people at work.
    Looking at the state of the stalls is a dead giveaway.
    It is gross cleaning up after people who can't or won't use a modern loo properly.
    Signs do not help so what are we supposed to do?