Festival queues a thing of the past with mixed loos
Several Belgian venues and festivals, including Rock Werchter, have begun rolling out gender-neutral toilets in a bid to end long waiting times for women
News By | 6 July 2017
Introducing gender-neutral toilets at music festivals would eliminate long queues for the ladies’ loos, according to two Belgian researchers.
Scientists Kurt Van Hautegem and Wouter Rogiest, both of Ghent University, used mathematical formulae to find the most ‘female-friendly’ toilet lay-out, concluding that a move to mixed male/female lavatories would help “put an end to this misogynistic toilet culture” (in which women are forced to wait longer than men) by reducing waiting times by up to 63%.
Outlining their findings in…
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