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"Potty Parity in Performing Arts"
Author: Rose Steele
Published In: Facilities Manager
Date: July/August 2020

Pre-pandemic, there weren’t enough women’s stalls in public bathrooms in performing arts facilities because building codes do not require enough to accommodate the actual demands. And, despite improvements on this front over the last 30 years, codes have continued to ignore this key issue. Switching to gender-neutral bathrooms could greatly reduce the problem, or at least spread it equally among all patrons and those of us in design and construction.


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