'Restrooms
Women's restrooms are located on the following levels:
Akerman Hall
Basement
2nd and 3rd Floor
MechanicalEngineering
1st and 2nd floor
Men's restrooms are located on each level in Akerman Hall'
I think that this picture is a sign; it has more to tell than where the toilets are located!! For those of you who didn't know Akerman Hall is an Aerospace Engineering building located right on our university's East Bank Campus. I understand that yes, it might have made sense long ago to have no or very few female toilets in engineering buildings because women hardly, (actually an overstatement), went in the buildings. Mostly because they were very few who went to school and if they did almost none did engineering as a major. I mean if i was one of the people designing any one of these buildings, why would i be stupid enough to waste money just to have a lot of toilets for women?? My very case rests on the fact that it was LONG AGO! Nowadays times have changed and quite a significant number of women are into engineering. So wouldn’t it be only fair for us to also have toilets on every floor just like our male counterparts?
Some of you may laugh or find my argument insignificant, but sometimes it is those little things that help us understand the flaws in the system. For decades we have heard of equality for both men and women. But one thing we have overlooked is that this is only implied in situation where it is beneficial to the ones with power. The culture we are surrounded by nowadays is to a greater extent economical than it is moral or to the benefit of the greater population. Which goes to show how structured it is. It is those with money who hold the reigns and are capable to steer the path for which the culture we follow takes. It would be highly non-economic to spend money on increasing number of toilets in a building, maybe, but does that mean its ok for maybe a 50 year old women suffering from diarrhea or some bowel disease to have to run down a flight of stairs before she can relieve herself?
If we look closely we will realize that this subject of equality we try to preach, has become so rhetorical, more of hardcopies than reality. The social construction was more direct long ago in showing its inequality against women as a subject. Now it has just found a way of concealing its inequality. But is that a reason for us to bow down and agree that it has become EQUAL?
I saw this same sign the other day going to class and thought to myself why this is even possible in the 21st century. Me being a guy though I went about my day as if nothing happened. I can imagine how frustrating and annoying this must be for a woman though. It seems so easy or simple to even out the number of bathrooms in a building but you are defintely right about being in an economic priority society. Makes you wonder what other morally right issues in the world are put after economics or finance.
ReplyDeletethis is very interesting to me because it shows signs of how the world was, and even though we want to change it and some people don't think gender inequality is right these signs seep through. Especially when the subject I assume was dominated by males, and even though now it might not be as much this shows signs of the past.
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