{"id":4481,"date":"2003-06-14T14:13:08","date_gmt":"2003-06-14T18:13:08","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.law.harvard.edu\/formerlyknownas\/2003\/06\/14\/potty-parity-and-professional"},"modified":"2011-08-05T15:00:55","modified_gmt":"2011-08-05T19:00:55","slug":"potty-parity-and-professional-responsibility","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/ethicalesq\/2003\/06\/14\/potty-parity-and-professional-responsibility\/","title":{"rendered":"Potty Parity and Professional Responsibility"},"content":{"rendered":"

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Wea<\/EM>kend Special<\/STRONG>: I confess, this is a topic I never considered until the Summer 2003 edition of the Harvard Law Bulletin <\/I>hit my mailbox today. <\/B>In a short article from its Briefs section, entitled We Are Where We Excrete<\/A><\/B>,<\/FONT><\/I> <\/B>Editor Lewis Rice raises the lid on an issue that has been the focus of “serious scholarhip” for several years by HLS alumnus Mary Anne Case (’85).  Case, a professor at the University of Chicago Law School, teaches feminist jurisprudence and constitutional law, and hopes to publish a law review article soon on the topic of “potty parity”. <\/FONT><\/P>
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Prof. Case has designed the Toilet Survey<\/A> <\/B>to help discover what is in and what is going on in public rest room facilities. <\/B>The Bulletin <\/EM>article flushes out some of the issues:<\/FONT><\/P>
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“The question is whether a model should move toward more integration or toward a richer idea of what separate but equal would involve.” she said.  Bathrooms that are separate are not always equal, she notes.  Equal square footage, for example, does not produce equality. <\/FONT><\/P>
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“What are you equalizing: excreting opportunities, or are you equalizing waiting time?<\/STRONG>” said Case. “I’m not being frivolous when I say these are important questions to debate.”<\/FONT><\/P><\/BLOCKQUOTE><\/B>
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Well, I’m being just as<\/EM> non-frivolous, when I say that law firms should give as much thought to this problem as restaurateurs and hotels, especially concerning the rest room facilities offered to clients. The Toilet Survey<\/A> <\/B>is a fountain of ideas on facts and factors to consider. The issue is way too important for me to offer a seat-of-the-pants opinion.  Maybe we could all give the topic due deliberation — wherever we get our best thinkng done.<\/FONT><\/P>
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Two Cents<\/FONT><\/B> from Jack Cliente<\/B>: If Prof. Chase is thinking about a lawsuit, I hope she’ll consider suing every second-rate bar and restaurant and gas station in the nation on behalf of grossed out males everywhere. No self-respecting woman would put up with the dark and dirty, sticky and stinky Men’s Rooms we guys endure every day.<\/FONT><\/P><\/BLOCKQUOTE><\/FONT><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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