I’ve typically wondered why females as well as men feel comfortable at weird uneven temperatures.
Another way to put it, why is it that boys want the cooling system set cold, while women reach for their jackets? After going to the internet with the question, I found that there are numerous explanations.
One is that females have a lower metabolic rate than men. Our metabolic rate is responsible for, among several other things, body heat production. Also, males generally have greater muscle mass than females, which is also responsible for body heat production. So who decides on who gets to control the temperature control – at work as well as at home? At the jobs, hands down, the cooling system settings are dominated by men. It turns out that engineers who design building space use building code standards that take the metabolic rates of boys into account. But that’s not to say that female employees take the freezing uneven temperatures sitting down, so to speak. Secret video cameras at numerous office sites have recorded both male as well as female culprits decreasing the temperature control settings – up to 10 times in one afternoon. Other guerilla tactics in the cooling system battles include placing cardboard over air vents, non-stop grievances to facilities managers, as well as tampering with locked temperature controls. But once the battle moves to the house front, it’s a really weird matter. Home is where the ladies prevail when it comes to temperature settings, especially at night. But boys argue that when it comes to the study room, the girl should bundle up with more comforters so that he can sleep comfortably with the cooling system set at a frigid temperature. The bottom line is that for boys as well as girls with real differences in temperature preferences, the temperature control will remain a battlefield.