Women generally only have the option of stalls whereas men will normally have the added option of urinals. For a woman who is unable to urinate in a stall, there is only really one fall back option - self-catheterization.

Female bathrooms are usually treated differently to men’s. That old adage that women go to the bathroom in pairs holds true - women’s bathrooms tend to be more of a social area than men’s, with women talking between the stalls, doing their make-up and hair in the mirrors, taking in small children (who can be disruptive) and changing babies nappies. For these reasons, women’s bathrooms tend to have longer queues. Both the queues and the social aspect of the bathrooms mean extra difficulties for female paruretics because they dislike being rushed and dislike other people being around meaning these types of situations can cause extra anxiety.