Nomura Holding America Inc., the U.S subsidiary of Tokyo-based Nomura Holdings, Inc. is in the news lately for being the first business to attempt to alter New York City's "plumbing code" that requires buildings to have an equal number of toilets for both men and women. Oh yay.
The building owners, represented by one of New York City's oldest real estate companies, wish to install fewer toilets for women on the trading floors which are, apparently, occupied mostly by men. Nomura feels the number of toilets should reflect the proportions of male and female employees who work on those floors, which has historically been 75 percent male and 25 percent female. So Nomura wants to trade women's toilets in for more men's — hey, what do you expect on a trading floor?
Keep in mind that this would not affect all 20 floors, or the entire 80,000 sq. meters of space leased by Nomura, so it may be that women will just have to "stay high."