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1 .This is Scientific American 60-Second Science. I'm Karen Hopkin.This'll just take a minute.
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2 .A question for the ladies: do you keep a sweater at your workplace desk even in the summer?
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3 .Or maybe especially in the summer?
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4 .Well, before you go blaming your internal thermostat, listen to this:
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5 .a new study shows that the air conditioning in many buildings is set to keep men feeling comfy.
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6 .The findings are served up in the journal Nature Climate Change.
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7 .People lose productivity when they spend all day shivering or sweating.
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8 .But finding that sweet spot,a temperature where everyone is happy can be a real challenge.
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9 .Offices are heated in winter and chilled in summer.
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10 .But these indoor climate control systems are based on standards established in the 1960s,
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11 .when the standard setters envisioned the typical office worker to be a man, 40-years-old and weighing 150 pounds.
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12 .In the new study, researchers measured the metabolic rate of 16 young women as they performed light office duties.
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13 .And found that the subjects were at a much lower burn than would be men of the accepted standard.
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14 .That means that women in the workplace need less air conditioning to get to their comfort zone.
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15 .And will really chill out with the AC set to 1960.
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16 .The findings also suggest that companies can conserve energy and save money by taking into consideration the ages, sexes and body sizes of their employees.
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17 .And that just might stop them from giving us gals the cold shoulder.
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18 .Thanks for the minute, for Scientific American 60-Second Science.I'm Karen Hopkin.
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