Stop using female janitors to clean male restrooms

It’s 2019, the second decade of the 21st century of mankind history and we are still using female janitors to clean male restrooms. It’s unbelievable. It’s well-known that in developing countries, the gender inequality is more extreme than it is in developed countries. In the two books by Khaled Hosseini I read and reviewed here and here, women in Afghanistan have no say in their future and marriage. In Vietnam, even though the awareness has somewhat improved, the gender inequality is still pretty rampant throughout the country.

But right here in the US, I am still shocked at how we still have female janitors clean male restrooms. I would feel super awkward and somewhat humiliated to do the cleaning in the bathroom of the opposite sex. Even as the one whose the bathroom is designed for, I still feel awkward doing my business whenever the cleaning session is under way. But I never see male janitors clean female restrooms. Ever.

There should be a federal law in the US that is taken up by all states that mandates that the bathroom gender be the same as the gender of the cleaning workers. Progress can be easily made here.