Reasons why women feel cold at work

By Ananya Bhattacharya, CNNMoney

How pervasive is bias against women in the workplace? Well, it’s literally in the air.

That’s one takeaway from a new study by two European researchers.

Most modern offices use climate control systems based on the metabolic rate of an average 40-year-old man who weighs 155 pounds.

That may have described a typical worker in the 1960s, when this standard was first adopted, but does not anymore.