Analysis | Stop the office A/C overload: Study shows women are more productive when it’s warmer
Turn that dial down! It helps women at work. By Jena McGregor Jena McGregor Reporter covering leadership issues in the headlines Email Bio Follow May 24 at 12:29 PM Women have a new weapon they can use to make their case against the chilly office conditions many experience each summer, as their sleeveless summer work clothes do battle with cranked-up air-conditioning systems.
Then last summer, it flared up again when Cynthia Nixon, Andrew Cuomo’s Democratic primary opponent for New York governor, asked a TV station to set the debate hall thermostat to a warm 76 degrees, calling workplaces “notoriously sexist when it comes to room temperature,” the New York Times reported.
What Chang was surprised by was the magnitude of his study’s results. Chang and his co-author, Agne Kajackaite, tested verbal and math skills in tests of college students in Berlin. They found that for every one degree increase in Celsius, the number of math questions answered correctly by women went up by 1.76 percent.
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