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While a small list, the position paper you sent could take a lot of time to address.   Let me start with the first and likely the most important issue.'gender parity'

>In answer to your question, one of my most recent sources was the >2003 International Building Code (IBC).  *Is there a newer one than >that?*

Yes -  The 2003 IPC is current.  [Note: Actual code in the Int'l Plumbing
Code]



>As I recall the 2003 IBC requires more WC's for men and women than
>had previously been required in stadiums, plus more for women.  Yet
>it still calls for equal numbers of fixtures for men and women in
>nightclubs, bars, taverns, restaurants, and food courts.

Below is 'cut & paste' from the 2003 IPC where more toilets fixtures are
required for women then men

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Theaters usually with fixed seats and other buildings for the performing arts and motion pictures,  Nightclubs, bars, taverns, dance halls and buildings for similar purposes Restaurants, banquet halls and food courts Auditoriums without permanent seating, galleries, exhibition halls, museums, lecture halls, libraries, arcades and gymnasiums Passenger terminals and transportation facilities Places of worship and other religious services. Churches without assembly halls  Coliseums, arenas, skating rinks, pools
and tennis courts for indoor sporting events and activities Stadiums, amusement parks, bleachers and grandstands for outdoor sporting events and activities.
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The IPC, at least in theory, should provide formulas for the amount of 'toilet fixtures' needed to satisfy each genders requirement rather then have one gender be factor of the other.  At the moment I don't think there is enough documentation to support an argument that the requirement that women's fixtures should be some product more for women then for men.  We need support documentation, and preferable what we should be saying is that in such and such a situation women need X.

To make the case, lets take at dormitories.  Currently there must be 1 toilet for every 10 students and 1 shower fixture for every 8.   Using the 'twice as many for women argument' that would be 1 toilet every 5 women.  I know ' the more the merrier' but would if be responsible for ARA to back an action that would most like drive up the cost of going to college unless we know it's a problem.