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To: Justin C who wrote (43024)	12/1/1999 9:57:00 AM
From: Ish	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 71178

<<I was surprised to see that the women's restroom had only 3 toilets while the men had 3 toilets plus 2 urinals, giving the men 66% more facilities. But of about 50 employees on the floor, 75% were women, making the restroom allocation totally out of kilter. >> That was really backward. Where my wife works there is a pre-op transsexual which caused a need for a 3rd type of facility.

To: Justin C who wrote (43024)	12/1/1999 1:44:00 PM
From: Ilaine	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 71178

"Potty parity" is, in fact, a topic that women do discuss, but it takes a lot of guts to bring up such a personal topic in the workplace. I used to think of myself as quite a liberated woman because I was willing to use the men's room, but only if men were not in it, after posting a guard outside to keep unsuspecting men from coming in and embarrassing us both. I would never, never have the effrontery to walk into a men's room when men were in there. On the other hand, I don't recall ever being so in extremis that I couldn't wait without soiling myself. I like to think that if I were, I'd explain it to the other women in the women's loo, and obtain a concession from them. And if not, I'd go in the wastebasket.

To: Justin C who wrote (43024)	12/1/1999 11:08:00 PM
From: nihil	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 71178

In the average office building the women average 28 years old, half have never been pregnant, and the urinate only 2 times on the average during the work day. The average man is 47 years old, 40% have bladder problems (from prostate trouble, diabetes, alcoholism, or the remnants of youthful profligacy). They average 8 urinations a day (more if they don't like their jobs). Disregarding absenteeism it is clear that adequate provision for needs require more outlets for men than women. Few women know that it is routine in mens rooms to have plenty of empty 1 liter wine carafes standing by for emergencies. My girlfriend says she has never seen emergency carafes in women's rooms. This suggests that there are rarely real emergencies for women. Another triumph for modern architecture.