Sanitation

Indian Lawmaker Urges Women-Only Lavatories on Planes to Improve Hygiene and Comfort

An Indian lawmaker is being mocked for supposedly demanding that Boeing and Airbus redesign aircraft with separate bathrooms for men and women. Her actual letter asks airlines to designate one existing lavatory women-only and clean all of them more often—a real sanitation problem wrapped in a policy likely to create new capacity, enforcement and gender-definition problems.