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From: credmond@watmath.UUCP
Newsgroups: soc.women
Subject: Re: public restrooms - women's smaller than men's?
Message-ID: <3466@watmath.UUCP>
Date: Wed, 1-Oct-86 15:17:28 EDT
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Posted: Wed Oct  1 15:17:28 1986
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Reply-To: credmond@watmath.UUCP (Chris Redmond)
Organization: U of Waterloo, Ontario
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In article <6541@lll-crg.ARpA> bandy@lll-crg.ARpA (Andrew Scott Beals) writes:
>>It might also be the solution to one of the pettier forms of sex
>>discrimination -- the imbalance between the public restrooms provided
>>for men (nearly always adequate) and those provided for women (very
>>often inadequate -- hence the lineups for women's rooms at theatres,
>>concert halls, stadiums and so on).
>
>Gee, I thought that it was because women always seem to go to the
>wc in groups...   Silly me!

At intermission at a concert or between innings at a ball game
this is hardly the problem.  The difference arises not because women's
restrooms are smaller, but because the two are built about the same
size, but women (for obvious reasons and some cultural ones) take
longer in the bathroom.

Some years ago there was a tiny golden-fleece-style controversy
(can't remember whether it was in the US or here in Canada) over a
government study of how long it took people to urinate!  Nobody, as
I recall, pointed out that such information might be useful in setting
building standards.