A BBC news article describes how many products are not designed with women in mind.
Car Safety
The most shocking is the lack of testing of female models for car safety.
Restaurant Seats
Bar Stools
The most annoying everyday ones include bar stools. Bar stools not designed for the short, the elderly and those wearing high heels and long skirts
But I can add a few more frequent irritations.
Chairs
Backless chairs which don't suit those (grannies) with bad backs.
Toilet Cubicles
Finally, when travelling, toilets so far from the entrance that by the time you have walked from the far end of the car park to the motorway mall entrance, then around the mall, then waited in line, you wonder whether you and the children are going to make it.
Inconvenient toilet cubicles.
1 Doors so near the seat that you have to climb over the seat and wipe it with your skirt to enter.
2 Large toilet roll holders which require you to lean sideways when opening the door.
3 Cubicles in airports and motorway stops and garages not big enough to admit you with your wheeled luggage.
4 Lack of hooks so you have to put your handbag or tote bag on the dirty floor. Also your long coat or mac needs a hook.
Solutions
Car Safety
Write to organizations asking what safety measures include female drivers.
Bar Stools
I check the website of a restaurant and look at the chairs. If they have bar stools and chairs, I ask them for a table with low chairs or a low table or a chair with a back.
If your guests arrive first and pick a high table with bar stools, what do you do. Next time ensure you arrive early and pick the table before your fellow diners get fixed at a table, or other diners have taken the suitable chairs.
Toilet Cubicles
Look for the cubicle for the disabled.
Useful Website https://www.bbc.com/news/world-us-canada-47725946#_=_
Author
Angela Lansbury, travel writer and photographer, author and speaker. Please share links to your favourite posts.
Car Safety
The most shocking is the lack of testing of female models for car safety.
Restaurant Seats
Bar Stools
The most annoying everyday ones include bar stools. Bar stools not designed for the short, the elderly and those wearing high heels and long skirts
But I can add a few more frequent irritations.
Chairs
Backless chairs which don't suit those (grannies) with bad backs.
Toilet Cubicles
Finally, when travelling, toilets so far from the entrance that by the time you have walked from the far end of the car park to the motorway mall entrance, then around the mall, then waited in line, you wonder whether you and the children are going to make it.
Inconvenient toilet cubicles.
1 Doors so near the seat that you have to climb over the seat and wipe it with your skirt to enter.
2 Large toilet roll holders which require you to lean sideways when opening the door.
3 Cubicles in airports and motorway stops and garages not big enough to admit you with your wheeled luggage.
4 Lack of hooks so you have to put your handbag or tote bag on the dirty floor. Also your long coat or mac needs a hook.
Solutions
Car Safety
Write to organizations asking what safety measures include female drivers.
Bar Stools
I check the website of a restaurant and look at the chairs. If they have bar stools and chairs, I ask them for a table with low chairs or a low table or a chair with a back.
If your guests arrive first and pick a high table with bar stools, what do you do. Next time ensure you arrive early and pick the table before your fellow diners get fixed at a table, or other diners have taken the suitable chairs.
Toilet Cubicles
Look for the cubicle for the disabled.
Useful Website https://www.bbc.com/news/world-us-canada-47725946#_=_
Author
Angela Lansbury, travel writer and photographer, author and speaker. Please share links to your favourite posts.
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