Practical solutions to building more toilets for ladies 


WE often dismiss queues at the ladies’ restrooms as an unavoidable inconvenience: “Women just take longer.” But this is not a biological inevitability; it is a failure of urban planning.

Our building guidelines were designed for numerical equality (a 1:1 ratio of male to female cubicles) rather than equity of need.

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