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The House Oversight and Government Reform Committee held hearings Wednesday on the “Potty Parity Act,” a bill that seeks to address the unequal number of restroom facilities for women in federal buildings by requiring at least a 1-to-1 ratio for toilets, including urinals, in women’s and men’s restrooms.
Supporters of the bill say women forced to wait in long restroom lines are at risk of health issues, including abdominal pain, cystitis and other urinary tract infections.
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Actually, feminists insist the lines have to be the same, requiring more women’s bathrooms than men.
I say get rid of all the bathrooms. Suggest that the workers get “depends.” Get back to work slaves!
I think the International Building Code has had provisions like this for many years. To my knowledge, you basically have to assume the ratio of occupants in a building is 50% male/50% female and provide equal facilities for each with only limited exception. This problem seems to be limited to older buildings where regulations like this did not exist.
On a side note its a bit of a problem in our office because we have about 50 male employees and 15 female employees, and the womens restroom has 3 toilets and the mens room has two toilets and a urinal. You can imagine how often we get lines in the mens room.
I have my doubts that this will actually reduce “waiting lines” that much. Whenever I go to the grocery store, there is often two or more women, blocking an isle, gabbing away about anything. So I wonder if this isn’t happening in Lady’s rooms too? I rarely see men, who don’t know each other, gabbing away in any public areas. Especially in rest rooms. If what I think is happening, is happening. Then women in general have got to be more considerate of those waiting to get in and do some useful business. And not be hanging out, shooting the breeze, away from men hitting on them, and monopolizing the rest room space.
Men are 50% of the population, women are 50% of the population. Seems logical to have the same number of stalls for both.