... are in the middle of budget crises and this sort of stuff has to muck up the works and waste more money??
I see the point, but just don't think this needs to be litigated and mandated. My issue with public restrooms has largely been one of cleanliness. There are some occasions -- like between innings at Yankee Stadium, intermission at a concert or on a night out at a particularly busy night club -- where I have had to wait on line to go, but it really is not all that common or something I feel needs to be remedied in law. Back in my single days when I went out a lot more, night clubs already had bigger bathroom facilities for women than men. This was a matter of good business for them cuz customers tend to drink less when they spend more time on line for the restroom and prefer to have to use the facilities less as a result!
I also don't know where it is that this Banzhaf is frequenting, but to say "In most facilities, all that has to be done is change the sign on the restroom door, taking away some men's bathrooms and assigning them to women" strikes me as rather clueless. In most arenas, night clubs, etc. you don't have 100 single bathrooms with male/female you have large rooms with lots of stalls. I don't think it's any more fair to assign all the restrooms in section 300 of some stadium to women and men to have to trek a lot further just to use the restroom as fair either.
Give me a clean restroom, full toilet paper rolls, shelves and hooks, stalls not so narrow I can actually use them (not to mention what any plus sized woman must go through if I'm having trouble), and those toilet "gaskets" and I'ld be happy. I dunno ladies, is waiting on line for a restroom a big deal for most of you?
Evie 
Dec 4, 12:48 AM (ET)
By DONNA DE LA CRUZ
NEW YORK (AP) - Potty parity. Squatters rights. Go ahead, make fun of the fact that several City Council members introduced a bill Wednesday to have more restrooms set aside for women than men in most buildings.
To women - and one male law professor dubbed "the father of potty parity" - it's a matter of gender equity.
"Women need more restroom facilities simply because women take longer," said John F. Banzhaf III, a public interest law professor at George Washington University Law School during a telephone interview Wednesday.
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