Historically speaking, there were no women's restrooms in workplaces and this was used to exclude women from public life. Women were not permitted to share the

Historically speaking, there were no women's restrooms in workplaces and this was used to exclude women from public life. Women were not permitted to share the male restroom space with the idea women should be staying at home. Massachussets legislated women's restrooms into existence in the late 1880s and other states followed suit thereby permitted increase women's labor participation. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Urinary_segregation https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Urinary_segregation and... http://www.livescience.com/54692-why-bathrooms-are-gender-segregated.html http://www.livescience.com/54692-why-bathrooms-are-gender-se...