Excerpt from CNN
Restrooms are “a public health issue and it’s a human rights issue,” said Kathryn Anthony, an architecture professor at the University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign and a board member of the American Restroom Association. Her studies have focused on potty parity – the idea that men and women should have equal speed of access to restrooms.
“It shouldn’t take (women) longer to access the restroom than it does for a man to access the restroom, that’s really the issue,” she said.
Studies show that women take about twice as long as men do to use the restroom. For a long time, that went unseen by architects designing public facilities, said Anthony.
“There’s been a relative lack of awareness and sensitivity to the needs of women and girls in restrooms,” she said. Part of that problem was that until recently, the field of architecture was dominated by men.
Read the full article at Why this year’s Super Bowl is all about the bathrooms.