This isn't true, is it?

I have found the biggest determiner really is other demographic factors like age.

Is it because there aren't enough of them? The men don't ever use the cubicles unless having a poo. But the women have to use them for absolutely everything.

They will suffer from wear and tear far quicker, broken flushes etc. The sanitary disposal facilities are often inadequate and the cubicles aren't built to properly accommodate them, in many cases.

I'm just trying to come up with reasons. I don't think women are innately messier.

And yes the men's always smell, because urinals.

Men are definitely cleaner than women in that department. Women are absolutely gross in the toilet department, I actually dread doing toilet checks in the ladies.

I think use matters. Women are more likely to have children with them and as PP have pointed out the use per stall ratio will be higher in women's toilets.

Doesn't excuse any minging behaviour mind.

Both can be bogging, but generally womens' were better. I used to clean toilets in a pub. Tampons smeared over a wall, once. Vomit and all sorts in the gents, dear god, what a horror that all was ...

Sometimes the bad smell from men's toilets is the old fashioned urinal pucks. I don't know what was in them but they made me want to puke when I was pregnant.

Attraction here, the men used to piss in the vague direction of the urinals, yellow walls and yellow floors

I have heard some people complain of worse women's toilets, so I think it can happen. I've been in some pretty nasty women's ones too, sanitary napkins thrown around, or once a sweatshirt in the only toilet and people kept peeing in it. Very gross.

When i cleaned toilets in a pub, the men's were dirtier.
BUT I think the ratios matter too.
In places with the same floor space for men and women, the men will have more facilities (urinals take less space) and generally use the cubicles less.
They will not use the cubicles for pissing in.

The woman to cubical ratio will be higher, and women often use toilets for things men don't. So in that situation I would expect the women's loos to be worse even if men and women were completely equal in terms of cleanliness.

A situation that would not be helped by making the female loos unisex (when urinals are removed, men make much more of a mess of cubicles - piss on seat etc).
Would be even worse if women's loos became unisex, and men's stayed male which is often the case when converting existing facilities.

Oh hell yes it's true. Having cleaned nightclubs and bars :

Mens toilet: The urinals smell, sometimes they don't flush and there's a bit of pee on the floor.

Womens toilet: Toilet paper literally everywhere, broken makeup cases in the sink, lipstick kisses all over the mirror (which take foooooorrever to remove). Toilets literally never flushed for some reason too. Just utterly rank.

Maybe people saying otherwise cleaned office toilets or something but for pubs and clubs it's no contest that womens are messier.

Really??? I cleaned hostel toilets years ago in exchange for free accommodation and the mens' were vile

Having cleaned pubs and restaurants, the men's smell worse but are much cleaner, women's are much worse - tissue everywhere, unflushed toilets, abandoned tights and underwear, debris from sanitary products, taps left on.

As an ex-cleaner looking at you, government offices in Liverpool, yes, very much so.

From experience cleaning toilets (in hospitals, factories, offices), I'd say there's little difference in terms of cleanliness.

The men's smell worse though, their urine is much stronger than ours, hence Kew Gardens only asking their male employees to piss on straw bales for composting.

One exception to general cleanliness though was toilets in theatre. Surgeons are bogging bastards.