Parents also change diapers, however most baby changing tables are installed in women's bathrooms, assuming that it is only they who change diapers to babies. A new law in the United States called "Bathrooms Accessible in Every Situatition" summarized "Babies Act" has put the focus on this discrimination and aims to end it.
Within the framework of this law, the New York City Council approved a bill last Monday that requires that all men's public restrooms have baby changing tables so that parents can also change their children in the best possible conditions. This includes cinemas, restaurants, shopping centers, museums and coffee shops.
A claim that is not new
New York City Councilman Rafael Espinal does not even have children, but said he introduced the bill after seeing a father trying to change his daughter's diaper over a dirty bathroom sink. Federal public access buildings must provide changing stations in the bathrooms for men and women under the Law we mentioned earlier signed by President Barack Obama in October 2016.
One of the most famous promoters of this change is actor Ashton Kutcher, who in 2015 published in his social networks that “there are NEVER diaper changers in the public toilets of men.” This triggered a movement to get it for the motto # Séelcambio and a signature collection was created to make it possible.
They also change diapers
There is currently no national law that requires installing changing rooms in public toilets. The companies that do it, do it on their own, and they usually do it in women's bathrooms, assuming that it is only the mother's business. This message only reinforces archaic gender stereotypes that do not fit the reality of today's parents.
Not only because it is assumed that only mom changes diapers, but also because other family models are not considered as single parents, or gay couples with children who have nowhere to change their babies if they go out with them.
The bill was very well received and everything seems to indicate that it will soon be a reality that all men's bathrooms in public places in New York have a decent place to change babies. Hopefully so and that is imitated in the rest of the cities of the world.
