Map of Inequalities

Then there’s the standard office temperature. Women are shivering in offices set to male temperature, Offices are currently on average five degrees too cold for women. The formula to determine standard office temperature was developed in the 1960s around the

metabolic resting rate of the average forty-year-old, 70 kg man. But a recent study found that ‘the metabolic rate of young adult females performing light office work is significantly lower’ than the standard values for men doing the same type of activity. In fact, the formula may overestimate female metabolic rate by as much as 35%, meaning that current offices are on average five degrees too cold for women. Which leads to the odd sight of female office workers wrapped up in blankets in the New York summer while their male colleagues wander around in

summer clothes.