According to The New York Times, a new study has shed some light on why women often feel cold at the office during the hot summer months: Many companies set thermostats using a formula from the 1960s that is based on male metabolic rates.
"In a lot of buildings, you see energy consumption is a lot higher because the standard is calibrated for men's body heat production," said Boris Kingma, a biophysicist who co-authored the study published in Nature Climate Change.
"If women have lower need for cooling, it actually means you can save energy because right now we're just cooling for this male population," Joost van Hoof, a building physicist who wasn't involved with the study, told the Times.
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