A boy walking into a latrine outside his makeshift home at a slum in Mumbai, India (© Rafiq Maqbool/AP)

Indian women don't pee as freely as the men

6/15/2012

India's largest city has a crappy problem: a shortage of toilets. Mumbai has 20 million residents and a severe lack of facilities. For women, the situation really reeks. While men can pee for free, women have to pay — an injustice targeted by a coalition of women who have started the Right to Pee campaign. In Mumbai, men have far more public toilets than women. Both sexes must pay for access to public toilets, but men get to use urinals for free. Good news, though: The campaign has prompted promises from officials to build hundreds of new toilets for women.

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