If that's the case I learned something new about plumbing. Unless you mean urinals as the option, which is not offered in most non-multiple people sized rooms to begin with.
Urinals are generally available in single person bathrooms in North America. About 30%, there is a urinal and a toilet. It reduces clean-up and gets people in and out faster.
But what I actually mean, is that urinals are space efficient, and speed people through the facility quite a bit by allowing a greater load. Even a bathroom with 2 urinals and 1 stall has twice the through flow as a 2 stall bathroom. Additionally, women spend longer in bathrooms on average, thus reducing the capacity of the facility even further.
Stalls are inefficient, women even more so. In fact, Women need to pee more often than men because of urinary tract length and bladder size--and they need to do so in facilities which can handle fewer occupants per square-foot.
To add insult to insult (in the diaper industry, waste-expulsion events are referred to as insults :D) building toilets in this way is bad business--the bathrooms will need to triple in size, costing a lot more to build and maintain. Businesses will have a cost pressure to underprovide toilets, OR charge for their use because the footprint of the facilities for sex-neutral facilities is quite a bit larger (with a slower through-flow) than just having a male facility and an "everything else" facility.
Women are terrible at shitting and pissing in a timely manner, and it's gonna cost us all money.
But what I actually mean, is that urinals are space efficient, and speed people through the facility quite a bit by allowing a greater load
Well yeah, if you have urinal space then its obviously more efficient. That's why I said it the way I did in the first place.
I was talking about places like restaurants and smaller government buildings where right now both genders have a restroom that is a toilet and a sink. There is functionally no difference between the two beyond the sign. Which means the sign is causing traffic buildup because in a lot of places there will be X more of this gender than the other meaning unnecessary wait lines for one while the other is open. BBQ joint women's rooms see far less use, while "staff offices" see far less men usage for an example I see regularly.
It won't speed up access. It'll slow it down. Right now, toilets have two options: Fast (male) and slow (female). Now there is one option: Slow.
If that's the case I learned something new about plumbing. Unless you mean urinals as the option, which is not offered in most non-multiple people sized rooms to begin with.
Urinals are generally available in single person bathrooms in North America. About 30%, there is a urinal and a toilet. It reduces clean-up and gets people in and out faster.
But what I actually mean, is that urinals are space efficient, and speed people through the facility quite a bit by allowing a greater load. Even a bathroom with 2 urinals and 1 stall has twice the through flow as a 2 stall bathroom. Additionally, women spend longer in bathrooms on average, thus reducing the capacity of the facility even further.
Stalls are inefficient, women even more so. In fact, Women need to pee more often than men because of urinary tract length and bladder size--and they need to do so in facilities which can handle fewer occupants per square-foot.
To add insult to insult (in the diaper industry, waste-expulsion events are referred to as insults :D) building toilets in this way is bad business--the bathrooms will need to triple in size, costing a lot more to build and maintain. Businesses will have a cost pressure to underprovide toilets, OR charge for their use because the footprint of the facilities for sex-neutral facilities is quite a bit larger (with a slower through-flow) than just having a male facility and an "everything else" facility.
Women are terrible at shitting and pissing in a timely manner, and it's gonna cost us all money.
Well yeah, if you have urinal space then its obviously more efficient. That's why I said it the way I did in the first place.
I was talking about places like restaurants and smaller government buildings where right now both genders have a restroom that is a toilet and a sink. There is functionally no difference between the two beyond the sign. Which means the sign is causing traffic buildup because in a lot of places there will be X more of this gender than the other meaning unnecessary wait lines for one while the other is open. BBQ joint women's rooms see far less use, while "staff offices" see far less men usage for an example I see regularly.