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From: credmond@watmath.UUCP (Chris Redmond)
Newsgroups: soc.women
Subject: Re: public restrooms
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Date: Fri, 26-Sep-86 09:04:28 EDT
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Posted: Fri Sep 26 09:04:28 1986
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Organization: U of Waterloo, Ontario
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>> 
>> Let's all work now to stop this antiquated separation of the sexes.
>> Break down bathroom barriers at your company or college, and treat
>> the sexes as one.
>
>This article was (I assume) meant to be facetious, but I should point
>out that this has been done in various places, notably some dorms and
>office/classroom buildings at Univ. of Calif., Berkeley while I was
>there in the mid-70's, with no great uproar, and worked quite well.
>It is the standard in many parts of the world, and I noticed some relatively
>large, unisex public restrooms in several places in Japan (at resorts 
>and parks) on my trip there last year.
>

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).