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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
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Posted: Thu Jun 14 23:29:58 1984
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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