NATION : N.Y. Law Gives Women Toilet Parity
Women won equal rights in the restroom under a law signed today by Gov. Mario M. Cuomo.
The law, dubbed the “Potty Parity” proposal, requires new buildings to have as many toilets for women as they do for men. The measure, subject of sometimes silly debate, passed the Legislature in June on a 140-1 vote.
The lone dissenter, Assemblyman Kemp Hannon, said women should have more toilets than men because women take longer in the bathroom.
The law applies to any new building designed for public assembly and built after June 1, 1990. The number of toilets in a women’s room would have to equal the number of urinals and toilet stalls in men’s rooms.
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