Public toilet provision for women is seen as a luxury

[ManaMinori 4,143]

Why is it that there always seem to be lines for women's restrooms, and never for mens? Quite simply- and apparently, women relieving themselves just wasn't a concern.

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The customs of public-restroom construction began to coalesce in the 19th century. Then, “the main concern of the male city fathers was to provide toilets for men, whose role in public space was accepted and indeed regarded as important to the industrial economy,” writes Clara Greed, an urban-planning scholar in the United Kingdom, in her contribution to the 2010 academic anthology Toilet: Public Restrooms and the Politics of Sharing.

source: https://www.theatlantic.com/family/archive/2019/01/women-men-bathroom-lines-wait/580993/

[Gestum 2,493]

While this may be a problem, I think it's unfair to blame it on sexism. Women's bathroom have longer lines then men because women generally spend more time on the toilet than men. And there's really no effenciant way to fix that. One could build more women's bathrooms, but most places doesn't have the space to build more if they wanted to. Plus it's not that cheap/easy to just build more bathrooms even if one had the space for it.

 

[cuteycindyhoney 13,282]

Guys have the biological advantage when going 'number 1'. Unzip, do your thing, zip. It's a bit more involved over in the ladies room. 

[Passion 3,478]

50 minutes ago, cuteycindyhoney said:

Guys have the biological advantage when going 'number 1'. Unzip, do your thing, zip. It's a bit more involved over in the ladies room. 

As long as some of us don't have the need to sneeze.

 

That aside, afaik women tend to visit bathroom more often than men due to biological conditions. Bladder size, mainly speaking. And, well, men don't really use bathroom for anything else, while some women do use it for fixing makeup, right? I suspect so. Maybe movie propaganda, but obviously I didn't have a chance to check lol.

[Misty Shadow 7,057]

Occam's Razor. The simplest solution is most often the correct one. Which sounds more likely? That men just spend less time in the restroom than women, or that this all goes back to sexism in the 19th century? Seriously. 

[SharpWit 2,472]

Urinals just don't take up as much space, and part of the unspoken bathroom code for men is to be as quick as possible.

[RDDash 18,837]

Urinal

7 minutes ago, SharpWit said:

Urinals just don't take up as much space, and part of the unspoken bathroom code for men is to be as quick as possible.

Urinals maybe, but I think woman toilets are more compact because they only need one type of toilet to work

[Meson Bolt 2,647]

OK, I had this discussion about a field latrine one time, and it got pretty heated, so I'm gonna just say this.

The male latrine and the female latrine were the same size as far as square footage went. The female latrine had six toilets, and the male latrine only had three.

The difference was that the other half of the male latrine was one big collective urinal. :/

[Concerned Bystander 2,901]

13 hours ago, R.D.Dash said:

Urinals maybe, but I think woman toilets are more compact because they only need one type of toilet to work

You can fit more urinals than cubicles in the same space, the ladies room has only cubicles whereas the gents has a mixture of both.  So facilities of equal size will have more toilets for men than for women, add to that the fact that men don't take as long and the general rule of etiquette that you don't talk to other people in the gents and the throughput is much higher, hence no queues.

Edited January 29, 2019 by Concerned Bystander

[Treeglow Flicker 12,971]

I've never liked public toilets. They're kind of a psychological nightmare for me and I lose all urge to go when I enter one.

[Here No Longer 5,270]

I hardly ever use restrooms in public due to anxiety problems, plus I just don't really like having to use a urinal... Bleh.

[ExplosionMare 18,007]

Like everyone said, women do tend to take a bit longer due to biological reasons and other factors like makeup or they have to take their small children in there with them or something. Also, I feel like there’s always a problem going on in restrooms that blocks them up (especially stalls without locks, how embarrassing).

[Will Guide 21,325]

2 minutes ago, ExplosionMare said:

Like everyone said, women do tend to take a bit longer due to biological reasons and other factors like makeup or they have to take their small children in there with them or something. Also, I feel like there’s always a problem going on in restrooms that blocks them up (especially stalls without locks, how embarrassing).

That's right. There's nothing sexist about Women taking longer than men to do their business. Sometimes, it's just the way things are.

[ExplosionMare 18,007]

1 hour ago, Will Guide said:

That's right. There's nothing sexist about Women taking longer than men to do their business. Sometimes, it's just the way things are.

Yup. Just the way things are. 

[TBD 17,226]

Public restroom is never consider "luxury"  unless it's meant to be luxurious. Like in a rich hotel, casino... you get the idea. 

[Dreambiscuit 8,012]

Women spend more time in the bathroom because we often take a little more general maintenance then men. Men can go in, do the deed and be gone. Women sometimes have a few additional tasks to perform.

[Thuja 3,658]

What's that you say?!?!  Women need to use the bathroom too???  PREPOSTEROUS!! 

[Dashy 4 Ever 4,831]

Men usually are done in 1 minute or less while for women, it takes longer.

(By the way, men's restrooms look nastier than the restrooms women use since us guys tend to do things in a rush.)

[Lucky Bolt 34,914]

I don't know, but guys have it a bit easier when it comes to how quickly it takes them to pee. Us girls, it's a bit more complicated, therefore it takes longer. 

Edited April 12, 2019 by Lucky Bolt