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Women's Public Restrooms in America story story aQUIETrevolution: women’s public restrooms in America by Kathryn H. Anthony EACH YEAR THE PRESIDENT OF THE UNITED STATES DELIVERS HIS STATE OF THE UNION SPEECH BEFORE THE U.S. CONGRESS. If I were President, my speech would include an annual state of our nation’s public restrooms. I would bring up the current state of America’s public restrooms in dire need of reform. It is currently in transition and that progress especially for women and families, has just been all too slow. Fig. 01 Long lines outside the women’s restroom are Fig. 02 Chan Centre for the Performing Arts restroom, Fig. 03 This unusual woman-friendly toilet stall provides common anywhere crowds gather, a form of subtle gender University of British Columbia, Vancouver, British Columbia, recessed shelving for purses, shopping bags, and back packs. discrimination. New potty parity laws in several states and Canada It should be a standard feature in all women’s restrooms. cities in the USA have helped remedy this problem but they Carlsbad Premium Outlets, Carlsbad, California, USA should be required nationwide and around the world. Photo Courtesy Kathryn H. Anthony Photo Courtesy Ivan Hunter Photo Courtesy Kathryn H. Anthony 36 I bathroom today I issue 2 2006 I MAY - SEP story story 01 03 02 Fig. 01 Long lines outside the women’s restroom are Fig. 02 Chan Centre for the Performing Arts restroom, Fig. 03 This unusual woman-friendly toilet stall provides common anywhere crowds gather, a form of subtle gender University of British Columbia, Vancouver, British Columbia, recessed shelving for purses, shopping bags, and back packs. discrimination. New potty parity laws in several states and Canada It should be a standard feature in all women’s restrooms. cities in the USA have helped remedy this problem but they Carlsbad Premium Outlets, Carlsbad, California, USA should be required nationwide and around the world. Photo Courtesy Kathryn H. Anthony Photo Courtesy Ivan Hunter Photo Courtesy Kathryn H. Anthony American men and women are impacted and child-friendly features. In addition, ratios of two women’s toilet stalls to one differently but affected nonetheless by there is also an emerging trend of family men’s stall, while others require a 3:2 or the availability of public restrooms and and unisex restrooms coming up. simply a 1:1 ratio. A range of definitions their design and maintenance. But this exists about which places are required to still means women suffer the bigger Other problems include few available achieve potty parity and this raises a key brunt of the struggle to answer nature’s public restrooms in most American cities legal question of what exactly constitutes call; accompanying children and elderly and limited accessibility for persons with equality in restrooms. Is it equal square relatives are part of the dominant factors disabilities despite the passage of the footage, equal toilets, or equal waiting that contribute to this discomforting 1990 Americans with Disabilities Act; time? One of the best models is inconvenience that translates to long unfortunately space here prohibits our Wisconsin’s law defining potty parity in queues (Fig. 1). discussion of these important issues. terms of equal speed of access for women and men. My recommendation is at least It is a form of subtle gender discrimination, About 21 of our 50 states and several a 2:1 or a 3:2 ratio. that few women-friendly and family- major cities, including New York and friendly restrooms are designed and put Chicago, recently passed potty parity As a matter of fact, stronger legistation in place. On the bright side, promising laws requiring greater access to women’s for this push for potty parity exists in solutions include potty parity laws restrooms. California was the first state to revised building codes that could set and revised building codes that host do so in 1987. New York City’s law passed standards for all buildings in all states. exemplary facilities with women-friendly in 2005. Most states with new laws require The 2003 International Building Code I bathroom today I issue 2 2006 I MAY - SEP 37 story story Fig. 07 Family restroom allows parent and child to use toilet Fig. 08 Waiting area outside family restroom. Market Place Fig. 09 Companion-care restroom at O’Hare Airport’s G at same time. Market Place Mall, Champaign, Illinois, USA Mall, Champaign, Illinois. USA Concourse, Chicago, Illinois, USA. Note safe-seat for child on right. Photo Courtesy Meghan Dufresne Photo Courtesy Meghan Dufresne Photo Courtesy Kathryn H. Anthony 04 05 06 Fig. 04 Baby changing station at Easton Towne Center, Fig. 05 Diaper-changing areas should be included in both Fig. 06 Kellogg Park Comfort Station in La Jolla, California, Columbus, Ohio, USA men’s and women’s restrooms to make it easier for fathers as USA, built in 2005, is an excellent example of unisex restrooms well as mothers to assist with child care. Parents who change directly accessed from outdoors that eliminate long lines for their babies’ diapers while away from home often find the ladies’ rooms and makes public restrooms safer places for availability, design and maintenance of public restrooms women, men, and children. problematic. Photo Courtesy America’s Best Restroom Photo Courtesy Nana Kirk Photo Courtesy Kathryn H. Anthony (IBC) calls for more water closets for both Projects Consultants, designed a unique prone to germ transmission. men and women in stadiums than had set of restrooms at the Chan Centre been previously required. As much as it for Performing Arts at the University of Hooks should be mounted at heights appears to be more demanding, the IBC’s British Columbia, Canada, opened in easily accessible to women of varied “Minimum Number of Required Plumbing 1997. Sinks are located in an attractive sizes. All too often they are thoughtlessly Facilities” still calls only for equal numbers circular arrangement, opening up the installed too high where only tall men of water closets for men and women in floor space around it. The washrooms are can reach them. Hand dryers, whether air nightclubs, bars, taverns, dance halls, as even featured on the theater’s web site dryers or towel dispensers also need to well as in restaurants, banquet halls, and (Fig. 02). be at appropriate heights and as close to food courts, where long ladies’ restroom sinks as possible; many women complain lines are still common. This still leaves us For public restrooms with multiple stalls, of dripping water down their sleeves while with serious shortcomings. such as those at theaters and airports hunting for the hand dryer. where large crowds gather fast during Potty parity laws are not in place in most specific intervals, designing oversized Now for family-friendly restrooms, several states just yet but they are definitely entries and exits along with wide major American family restaurant chains needed nationwide and around the world. circulation areas around the sinks and now include diaper-changing areas Moreover, almost all potty parity laws stalls is key. Sufficient room is needed for with pullout changing fixtures in their apply only to new construction or major women to exit while others wait to enter restrooms. More rare but far better are renovations of large public buildings taking into account that some of these fixed countertops or tables with sturdy where at least half the building is being users may be in wheelchairs or strollers. surfaces made of Corian or steel and remodeled. Most older buildings remain a ledge to prevent infants from falling. unaffected and women are still forced to Some state of the art, women-friendly One of the best designed, most spacious wait in line which means possible health restroom designs are found at America’s baby changing stations is at Easton risks. regional shopping centers as well.One of Towne Center in Columbus, Ohio, a 2003 the best examples is Carlsbad Premium nominee for America’s Best Restroom According to the National Institutes Outlets in Carlsbad, California, just north (Fig. 4). of Health, urinary tract infections, of San Diego. It features an upscale décor constipation; abdominal pain; diverticuli; with louvered doors on all toilet stalls such Some restaurants only provide baby hemorrhoids and other health problems as one might find at a luxury hotel. Inside changing facilities in women’s restrooms can result if individuals delay voiding. each toilet stall is an attractive tile wall. but not in men’s, yet another form of Behind each toilet is a wide, recessed gender discrimination. They should The American Restroom Association shelf covered by guardrails to hold purses be provided equally in both men’s reports that restroom duress is a major and shopping bags so they are off the and women’s restrooms to allow both concern for women. Those who are floor—a problem rarely addressed by parents to change diapers (Fig. 5). Many pregnant, middle aged or elderly; designers but one that should be included independently run restaurants, as well as experiencing irregular menses; on in all women’s restrooms. Grab bars assist stores, park shelters and other spaces medication for high blood pressure; elderly and persons with disabilities (Fig. ignore young families, forcing parents suffering from bowel bladder cancer; 3). to change their babies’ diapers on dirty bowel incontinence; urinary tract bathroom floors where they pick up infections; ulcerative colitis and other To make toilets even more women-friendly, germs. It is thus not surprising that after ailments constitute a significant portion installing at least two hooks in each toilet excursions away from home, so many of the world’s population. While potty stall (one for outerwear such as jackets children wind up with colds and stomach parity laws and updated building codes and coats, and another for purses and trouble.
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