Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Posting-Version: version B 2.10.1 6/24/83; site watmath.UUCP Path: utzoo!watmath!cmgiuliani From: cmgiuliani@watmath.UUCP (cmgiuliani) Newsgroups: net.women Subject: Re: Bathrooms: equality? Message-ID: <8039@watmath.UUCP> Date: Thu, 14-Jun-84 23:29:58 EDT Article-I.D.: watmath.8039 Posted: Thu Jun 14 23:29:58 1984 Date-Received: Fri, 15-Jun-84 01:10:46 EDT References: <450@trwspp.UUCP> <477@denelcor.UUCP>, <643@vax1.fluke.UUCP>, <8021@watmath.UUCP> Organization: U of Waterloo, Ontario Lines: 21 The differences that tend to exist between men's and women's bathrooms have always baffled me. I became aware of such differences in residence. For one thing, the bathrooms in the women's residences always had better quality toilet tissue. Trivial but true. Also, women's shower facilities would often consist of individual booths, while the men's were tiled rooms with several shower heads. I noticed this same difference in showers in the dressing rooms at the Theatre here at the University. What bugs me is how somebody decides to make these different provisions. Does an architect routinely design the men's showers to be different from the women's? Is it obvious to the supplies clerk that women should have softer bathroom tissue than men? What makes these people decide things like this? Incidently, this is not always to the women's advantage. At the theatre, the space that provided for 4 shower heads in the men's dressing room only held room for 2 individual booths in the women's. Carlo @ the U of Waterloo