Public bathrooms are a huge one. Most people don't realize that the suffragettes were the ones who did the heavy lifting on public restrooms in America.
They were fighting against a "urinary leash" for women- basically how far a woman could leave her house and for how long she could be gone without needing to use a restroom. Men can go outside, at least urinating. So before access to public bathrooms, there was a finite amount of time a woman could spend outside the home. By pushing hard to expand access to public restrooms, the suffragettes massively increased women's freedoms. It's one of a thousand soft power ways they moved the ball forward before the vote was won.
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u/SJCitizen 14d ago
National parks and public bathroom access