Busted Flush

Barkingside 21 posts on World Toilet Day, which is today.

The bit that caught my eye on the WTD site was this:

We need women's rights.
Studies show that women take longer to use restrooms than men. If there are three toilets for each gender, though, the women's room will have a far longer line. You've seen it happen in stadiums, theaters, and malls - that's because archaic building codes don't consider women's physiological needs.

That may be true but the inherent assumption in that statement is that there IS an equal number of toilets in the first place. Of course, judging by the language and spelling that site appears to be USA based so it may well be different over there.

Here’s what I wrote back in 2007, but the exercise started in 1992 and continues without any different result to date.

Ladies Toilets
Now why is a Grumpy old man blogging on this subject? Principally because he’s spent a good deal of his time waiting for Mrs Weggis to emerge from said facility. It’s not the girls fault, chaps, it’s ours.
It all started when Weggis was walking down the corridor with a female colleague deep in conversation, we turned right through a door and Weggis ended up in the ladies toilet. It covered exactly the same floor space as the gents on the alternate floors, it had two enclosed WCs the same as the Gents, but in place of the six urinals was a row of basins and mirrors. The girls had two outlets, the boys had eight. This is what the male architects think the girls want to do in the lav, fix their make-up and wash their hands. Wrong! They want to have a pee.
Weggis was not amused and tasked Mrs Weggis to describe the layout of every loo she entered. Sure enough, though the numbers varied, there were always more outlets in the Gents than in the Ladies.
OK, urinals don’t take up as much room as a WC, so allocate a bit more floor space to the ladies, it’s not difficult, boys, and it’s a lot less hassle.
So, next time you’re pacing up and down while the missus is in a queue for the ladies ponder on the lack of female architects, and the idiot male architects who are responsible for your situation.