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This interdisciplinary (GS and CS) paper starts from considering the problem of locating restrooms or locker rooms in a privacy-preserving way, i.e., so that while following the path to one's room, one cannot peek into another room; the rooms are meant for a multitude of genders, one room per gender. We then proceed to showing that gender inequality (non-uniform treatment of genders by genders) makes the room placement hard. Finally, we delve into specifics of gender definition and consider locating facilities for the genders in a "perfect" way, i.e., so that navigating to the facilities involves only quick binary decisions; on the way, we indicate that there is room for interpretation the facilities under consideration (we outline several possibilities, depending on the application).
@InProceedings{polishchuk_et_al:LIPIcs.FUN.2018.28,
author = {Polishchuk, Valentin and Sedov, Leonid},
title = {{Gender-Aware Facility Location in Multi-Gender World}},
booktitle = {9th International Conference on Fun with Algorithms (FUN 2018)},
pages = {28:1--28:16},
series = {Leibniz International Proceedings in Informatics (LIPIcs)},
ISBN = {978-3-95977-067-5},
ISSN = {1868-8969},
year = {2018},
volume = {100},
editor = {Ito, Hiro and Leonardi, Stefano and Pagli, Linda and Prencipe, Giuseppe},
publisher = {Schloss Dagstuhl -- Leibniz-Zentrum f{\"u}r Informatik},
address = {Dagstuhl, Germany},
URL = {https://drops.dagstuhl.de/entities/document/10.4230/LIPIcs.FUN.2018.28},
URN = {urn:nbn:de:0030-drops-88191},
doi = {10.4230/LIPIcs.FUN.2018.28},
annote = {Keywords: visibility, Strahler number, perfect tree, interval graphs, gender studies}
}