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165 Rest Stop MIT’s Infinite Corridor, Now Shorter for Women P O S S I B LY N A M E D BY a woman searching for relief, the “infinite corridor”—as it is generally called by people at MIT—is a spinelike , 825-foot, indoor pedestrian highway uniting the components of MIT’s core academic campus. Until 2005, three of the four restrooms along this long central thoroughfare were for men. During a renovation of the corridor’s east end, one of the restrooms underwent an architectural male-to-female transgendering. Urinals were removed and additional sinks and stalls added. Sign indicating that a bathroom in MIT’s infinite corridor will no longer be for men but will become a women’s room after June 2005, Cambridge, MA, 2005. (Courtesy of Sam Maurer) 166 Rest Stop: MIT’s Infinite Corridor, Now Shorter for Women Women’s acquisition of more equitable bathroom real estate followed reports on the status of women faculty that revealed unsettling gender gaps in overall representation, salary, and lab-space allocation. The architectural move is a statement in stone indicating the institute ’s increased sensitivity to gender equity. Graph of the percentage of female students, faculty, and staff at MIT in 2008. ...

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