BBC:
A few years ago, Nathalie Des Isnards was attending a music festival with her husband David, and planning to watch her favourite group.
Before the show, they headed to the toilets. "I spent 30 minutes in the queue waiting to pee," she recalls. Much to her frustration, she missed the first part of the concert.
Meanwhile David took just "two minutes", and saw the whole show.
"I was upset. I told myself, 'We're in the 21st century, something should be done about that.'"
She set about creating a women's urinal. The simple seatless basin she devised is housed in a cubicle with roof and door, designed for faster use but also privacy. "I was not a designer. I was a user first," says the 46-year-old.
A different but important engineering challenge.
(Score: 2) by Grishnakh on Saturday March 14 2020, @02:29AM
Maybe simply build women's facilities to have a lot more stalls? Would this be an unreasonable solution? Has any architect ever considered this?
They can't.
I'm sure architects have considered this. They may have even pitched it to their clients. The clients surely told them "hell no".
Bathrooms cost a LOT of money, compared to most other building spaces (except maybe kitchens). And the companies building buildings are going to do it as cheaply as possible, so they only meet the legal minimums for bathroom space. Those building codes don't usually account for women taking twice as long (I think they might in some states), so they put in the bathroom space you see now.