If you are a woman, you probably have suffered from the frustration of standing in a super long and slow-moving line in front of the women's restroom, all the while watching men quickly going in and out of their own restroom.
This problem has been a thorn in the side for most women around the world for a long time. However, there is some good news for women in China as the central government has recently released a draft revision of the Law on the Protection of Women's Rights and Interests stipulating that local governments at all levels should ensure that public venues have more women's toilets than men's as well as a reasonable number of public facilities such as maternity and infant rooms.
"We need bathroom facilities far more than men do! Women pee more when they're pregnant. Mothers escort their young children to the toilets. Women have periods. And sometimes we need a space for checking and adjusting our clothing and appearance in the mirror," a female netizen commented on Sina Weibo.
Studies show that women use the restroom for 249 seconds on average, far more than the 170 seconds spent by men. Yet the square footage of men's and women's public restrooms is the same, leading to an average of 10 cubicles for women and 10 urinals plus two cubicles for men.
