How much there is discrimination against women in the workplace? Well, literally it’s up in the air according to a study by two European researchers.
Most modern offices use a temperature control system that is based on the metabolic rate of a 40 year old man weighing 70 kilos.
This represented the average worker in the 1960s, when this standard was adopted for the first time, but is not currently in effect.
“We found that global estándarse at least as metabolic-rate based on an average man,” said the investigator Boris Kingma to CNNMoney.
Kingma and Wouter van Marken Lichtenbelt, who are researchers at Maastricht University Medical Center in the Netherlands, published their study on Monday in the journal Nature Climate Change .
The two believe the temperature standards should be consistent with the “body composition” of people who are in a building and that would make a more suitable for most people friendly.
The issue is not really about gender but about the existence of any minority, such as children and the elderly, who have a different metabolic rate for men 1960.
Clear that the present minority group in offices are women, so you may see them covered with scarves and sweaters all day.
“Women are generally smaller than men and have a higher percentage of body fat. So the metabolic rate is between 20 and 30% lower,” Kigma, who is a biophysicist said.
In a control study with 16 women, researchers found that the ideal temperature for them was up to 15 degrees higher than for men.
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