10 Feb 2026

Reversing the flow on toilet inequity

From Nights, 8:30 pm on 10 February 2026

If you've ever had to stand in a queue to use the toilet at a concert, sporting event or public building, you may have experienced toilet inequity.

While the men's toilet queue appears to flow freely, as it were - the queue for the women's toilet can be the opposite.

So why is this, and can anything be done to improve this inequality?

Daniel Thompson is an architect with Warren and Mahoney and the co-author of a New Zealand Institute of Architects Practice Note Beyond the Binary Bathroom: A Guide for All-Gender Bathroom Facilities.

He joins Emile Donovan.

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