Women, This Is Why You're Freezing At Work

Your suspicions have been confirmed, women. You DO feel colder than men in the office.

It turns out air conditioning levels are set by 50-year-old standards based on the resting metabolic rate of a 70kg, 40-year-old male.

Dutch researchers have calculated that level over-estimates the female metabolic rate by 35 per cent.

And that’s why you feel cold in the office.

But it gets even worse.

Energy consumption of residential buildings and offices contribute about 30 per cent of the world’s carbon dioxide emissions that are warming the planet.

Because we’re using more energy trying to keep men cool we’re warming the planet.

If we set air conditioners to make women feel comfortable, not cold, in summer we could “make real energy savings” according to a study published in the Nature Climate Change Journal.

According to researchers Boris Kigma and Wouter van Marken Lichtenbelt, in general females prefer a room temperature three degrees higher than men.

Women feel comfortable when the room is 25 degrees Celsius, men at 22 degrees Celsius.

The pair studied the physiology of 16 young women who performed light office work and found that their metabolic rate is significantly lower than the standard male values used.

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