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Temperatures are set based on formulas that aimed to optimize employees' thermal comfort, a neutral condition of the body when it doesn't have to shiver to produce heat because it's too cold or sweat because it's too hot. It's based on four environmental factors: air temperature, radiant temperature, air velocity and humidity. And two personal factors: clothing and metabolic rate, the amount of energy required by the body to function.
The problem, according to a study in Nature Climate Change on Monday, is that metabolic rates can vary widely across humans based on a number of factors -- size, weight, age, fitness level and the type of work being done -- and today's standards are based on the assumption that every worker is, you guessed it, a man.
Or if you want to be really specific, a 40-year-old, 154-pound man.
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Kingma and van Marken Lictenbelt's work builds on research out of Japan which found that the neutral temperature for Japanese women was 77.36 degrees (Fahrenheit) while it was 71.78 for European and North American males.
5.58 degrees is a significant difference. Is it better for half the people in the office to be sweaty than half the people in the office to be chilly?
(Score: 1, Interesting) by Anonymous Coward on Wednesday August 05 2015, @06:48PM
You are not incorrect:
Invention of the Patriarchy. [youtube.com]
However, Feminism is an outgrowth of Marxist Theory [wikipedia.org], which is not only attacking the west through dishonest propaganda that causes gender divisionism, but also via media lies designed to cause racial tensions. [youtube.com]
SJW is the non "Politically Correct" term for lying and manipulative ideological extremists who co-opted the once legitimate Civil Rights movements to further a world wide propaganda war against capitalism in the west.
Feminism is not "women's rights". Feminism is a bogus ideology that does not further the rights of women. Women's Rights needs a divorce from Feminism, which is just traditionalism (more protection and provision for women) repackaged and sold to angst filled college youths as a way to "rebel" against "oppression" and "tear down gender roles" (while actually furthering them and increasing the size of the socialist police state); These useful idiots who buy into the easy to believe lies then spread the propaganda and cause erosion of social unity without even realizing what they're doing -- they think the rest of us are all just blind to how evil we all must be for not agreeing with them (even though many of us know far more about their bullshit teachings than they do).
E.g.: If you had no knowledge of the KKK and they were teaching a class about "Racial Studies" and promoting Racial Pride, and just wanted to inform you of the inherent evils of "blackness", the correct thing to do would be to research the KKK beyond just what is stated in their own propaganda. Notice that SJWs don't do any research about Feminism or Marxism outside these ideologies' own propaganda, and thus teach and attend classes about "Women's Studies / Gender Studies" and "African / Native American Studies" (etc.) while promoting "gender" pride, and just want to inform you of the inherent evils of "maleness" and "whiteness". It's fucking disgusting, and colleges are rife with this Orwellian authoritarian ideological indoctrination. [thefire.org] I feel sorry for the duped idiots who are unwittingly helping to destroying western cultures (who never mention the "diversity" disparity and lack of "representation" of blacks among Chinese or Russian businesses, BTW), but then again I have no tolerance for stupidity or identity politics. [wikipedia.org]
Feminism did not break down gender roles and allow the family to select which parent would raise the children and maintain the home. Instead it shamed women into the workplace by overvaluing the worker role and devaluing the parenting responsibilities. Once women entered the workplace the economy adjusted to two income homes, and so you now get the same amount of pay per home for twice the labor -- Capitalists love it too: Workforce labor at half the price! That's why elites like the Rockefeller fund feminist rags like Miss Magazine. With both parents slaving away in the workplace the State loves being able to take on more responsibility for raising / controlling the children [youtube.com] -- gee, how very Marxist, eh? The better to indoctrinate you with, my dear.
(Score: 3, Interesting) by K_benzoate on Wednesday August 05 2015, @07:13PM
The doubling of the labor force driving down wages is something that I've struggled with. I do agree with the idea that women should be allowed to choose to work if that's what they think is most fulfilling. I'm also committed to the idea that the most stable unit to raise children is one full-time worker and one full-time caregiver, at least until the child is old enough to start school. I'm not committed to any particular arrangement of the sexes within that framework. Two men, two women, one man, one woman, all seem equally effective. I would say however that children, boys especially, need a "traditionally" masculine role model. This does not necessarily have to come from one of the parents, or even a male for that matter.
Suffice to say I disagree with all sides on this debate to the point where I have almost no allies or cohorts. Liberals call me a conservative "family values" bigot, and conservatives detest my flexibility with regard to sexuality and gender roles. I like to think I look at what works and adopt it, regardless of where the idea came from. Our society seems to have done the opposite and mixed the worst aspects of every modality.
Climate change is real and primarily caused by human activity.
(Score: 2) by kurenai.tsubasa on Wednesday August 05 2015, @08:01PM
I'd like to say I agree with your position on the matter. (My only nitpick is that my hypothesis is that a child needs a role model who is the same mental gender, but we'll need to wait 20–30 years for any data to come out to test that hypothesis. Of course a role model doesn't necessarily need to be a parent, so my hypothesis wouldn't be an argument against homosexual marriage but perhaps a consideration for parents to take into account, if it's true at all.)
It's a very small part of the series, but the first episode of Madoka Magica [wikipedia.org] is just about the only instance I think I've ever seen of a “househusband.”
We opened up the workplace to women, but we neglected to open up the “kitchen,” as it were, to men.