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From: tron@fluke.UUCP (Peter F. Barbee)
Newsgroups: net.women
Subject: Bathrooms: equality?
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Date: Mon, 18-Jun-84 00:55:14 EDT
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Posted: Mon Jun 18 00:55:14 1984
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This bathroom discussion has reminded me of an interesting situation,
I'm not sure if it's discriminatory or not.

Did you ever notice how the line at the women's john is longer than
at the men's.  This is especially true if fairly equal numbers of men
and women are present.  There are obvious reasons (basically women 
tend to take longer).

Now the question; should the designers of a public building allocate
more room for the women's johns?  In some ways this is the same topic
as pensions (not all ways, some- no need for flames), i.e. women and
men are different and distinguishable, do we artificially force (or
facilitate) equality.

			Maybe I've been glaring at the phoshor too long,
			Peter Barbee

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