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10. Check the Data: It’s a Man’s World

The Freakonomics Radio Book Club

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Why Women Are Always Using the Toilet

There are homes with bathrooms for women everywhere. There just aren't enough of them, which is why women are always cewing to use the toilet. The reason is a false idea of what toilet equality lks like. Equal floor space for men and women sounds great in theory, but in practice it means that men have more provision because you can fit more urinals into square footage than you can fit cubicles. And that's before you factor in the fact that there is more demand on female toilets. Women tend to take longer, and that's for all of reasons, from just the mechanics of it.

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