According to Barbara Penner, professor of architectural history at University College London, this was an expression of the gender ideology of that era: Prior to the modern industrial period, she argues, toilets were frequently communal and mixed.
Laut Barbara Penner, Professorin für Architekturgeschichte am University College London, war dies Ausdruck der Geschlechterideologie dieser Ära: „Prior to the modern industrial period, toilets were frequently communal and mixed.