I've just moved to a new office and there are only two women's toilets for the whole building. I'm not sure how many people work there but enough that there is often a queue and the lack of toilets is a common cause of complaints amongst female staff.
The men's toilets are in a room of the same size as the women's, but as well as two cubicles there are (apparently - I haven't actually been in to investigate!) also two urinals.
I should also mention that the office is around two thirds to three quarters female.
This set me thinking about how it is accepted that women will have to queue for the toilet and men won't. Why is this? Wouldn't it be fairer if women's toilets in all public places had the same amount of cubicles as men's have urinals and cubicles in total, even if that means they take up a larger area? Why don't we at least design new buildings like this?
Or am I over thinking this? I am heavily pregnant and spend a lot of time queuing for the loo, so I might be
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Women's toilets (lack of)
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SnozzberryPie · 09/10/2015 17:36
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