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Long Lines for Women’s Bathrooms Could Be Eliminated. Why Haven’t They Been?

smolsky 8y ago
Yeah, the opposite is true in many Silicon Valley offices - the male's toilet has a line after lunch.
- Gibbon1 8y ago
  And people wonder why the potted fern in my office is so much healthier than all the others. Seriously the reason the line is so long for the women's room is because the bosses don't care because they use the men's room.
uberman 8y ago
Women don't pee any slower than men. Men, being gross and all, we are willing to pee communally, women are typically not. Does anyone really want to pee in a trough with a bunch of others watching with their wandering judging eyes??? To achieve parity, remove urinals and place sinks above waist height (yes for that reason). Hell who am I kidding, just remove the sinks as well. Now everyone will pee privately, in their own stall making things slower, but no one will wash their hands speeding things up. Bathroom parity achieved!
- undersuit 8y ago
  Why do the sinks have to be gender specific?
  - londons_explore 8y ago
    Men pee in the sinks in the less reputable venues...
    - undersuit 8y ago
      But they already offered a solution to that.
- atiredturte 8y ago
  Women (largely) cannot urinate standing up. Also due to a shorter urethra, they have to wipe afterwards to avoid UTIs. As such, they largely take longer to pee than men.
GhostVII 8y ago
Seems pretty absurd that the government is requiring buildings to have more stalls for women than men. Shouldn't companies have the freedom to decide what ratio is required for their building? Or at least to make the ratio equal? I mean the easiest solution would be to just make it all unisex, maybe with a separate area for urinals or something, but I don't see that happening any time soon. And I'm not sure why they jumped to sexism as a cause of the issue - as they pointed out later in the article, men and women have fundamentally different bathroom needs, and take different amounts of time.

Yeah, the opposite is true in many Silicon Valley offices - the male's toilet has a line after lunch.

Gibbon1 8y ago
And people wonder why the potted fern in my office is so much healthier than all the others. Seriously the reason the line is so long for the women's room is because the bosses don't care because they use the men's room.

Women don't pee any slower than men. Men, being gross and all, we are willing to pee communally, women are typically not. Does anyone really want to pee in a trough with a bunch of others watching with their wandering judging eyes??? To achieve parity, remove urinals and place sinks above waist height (yes for that reason). Hell who am I kidding, just remove the sinks as well. Now everyone will pee privately, in their own stall making things slower, but no one will wash their hands speeding things up. Bathroom parity achieved!

undersuit 8y ago
Why do the sinks have to be gender specific?
- londons_explore 8y ago
  Men pee in the sinks in the less reputable venues...
  - undersuit 8y ago
    But they already offered a solution to that.
atiredturte 8y ago
Women (largely) cannot urinate standing up. Also due to a shorter urethra, they have to wipe afterwards to avoid UTIs. As such, they largely take longer to pee than men.

GhostVII 8y ago

Seems pretty absurd that the government is requiring buildings to have more stalls for women than men. Shouldn't companies have the freedom to decide what ratio is required for their building? Or at least to make the ratio equal? I mean the easiest solution would be to just make it all unisex, maybe with a separate area for urinals or something, but I don't see that happening any time soon. And I'm not sure why they jumped to sexism as a cause of the issue - as they pointed out later in the article, men and women have fundamentally different bathroom needs, and take different amounts of time.