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The issue isn't really only about gender but any 'subpopulation,' like seniors or children, with a different metabolic rate than the 1960s guy used as the standard. That will create the ideal environment for most of the people. The two believe temperature standards should be set according to the 'body composition' of the people in a particular building or office. Kingma and Wouter van Marken Lichtenbelt, both of whom are at the University of Maastricht Medical Center in the Netherlands, published their research Monday in the journal Nature Climate Change.

My office is freezing cold