Frigid offices, freezing women, oblivious men: An air-conditioning investigation

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58. Are menopausal women to blame for why it’s so cold in your office?

Are menopausal women to blame for why it’s so cold in your office?

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By Petula Dvorak July 24 at 1:34 PM
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The office air-conditioning debate is a hot one. ... Arctic A/C is the Manspreading of Summer ’15. People had a lot to say on the subject after I wrote Thursday about the gender divide, thermostat edition.

After an exhaustive investigation (talking to people outside at lunch, plus years of listening to my female co-workers complain about the frigid air at The Post), I laid out the state of things: Women are shivering in their offices all summer. Their suit-wearing male colleagues are fine.

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I think I heard from every man in America who said he was cold at work, too. #NotAllMen.

And there was a bunch of guys eager to blame women of a certain age for the whole phenomenon: ... “While I was in a hospital a few years ago I asked a nurse why it was so cold. I expected a medical answer, like promoting healing or controlling germs,” wrote one reader. “She said, ‘The thermostats are controlled by fat, menopausal women!’ ”