Japan government to set standards for numbers of women’s toilets at public and private restrooms. It was found that the number of women’s toilets (including both stalls and urinals) is 37% lower than that of men’s restrooms at train stations, 34% lower at airports, and 11% lower at movie theaters.
https://www.asahi.com/articles/ASV6D0H9BV6DUTIL015M.html
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Understandable that it’s this way currently, since more urinals can be crammed into the same space.
Women take more time and have greater needs than men, so it makes perfect sense to have more restrooms for women.
Apparently, men’s privacy doesn’t matter to anyone.
Yeah. I always hate going in public with my partner because he’s always in and out, and I always ALWAYS have to wait in a line for like 10 minutes.
Japan finally discovering that equality requires critical and logical thought rather than simply “well they have the same amount of space!”
Now if only they could apply that logic to (checks notes) literally everything else.
I wish they’d get rid of the squat toilets. I’ve seen women lining up for the western-style toilets while the squat toilets are empty. No one wants to use them. They’re a waste of space. It’s better to replace them.
Everyone’s so constipated in Tokyo lately that every time I go I can’t find a toilet to shit. Waiting twenty plus minutes with diarrhea is killer. Everywhere needs more toilets.
It’s about time this gets addressed on a systematic level. One of my workplaces is in a shopping mall shared with a hotel, and we have to use the back staff area’s toilet. If one used their brain for about 5 seconds they’d know that 95% of people who work as hotel cleaning staff and retail in malls are women.
Even so, in the hallway the men’s room is first (it’s always the case) and has 2 units whereas the women’s has a single toilet for all of the staff. The retail floor I’m on has about 5 male staff and more than 20 women. Make it make sense😭
The wording of the headline makes it seem like women’s urinals are a thing.