Yeah, this is a thing, and I hear plenty of Americans make baffled complaints about it as well.
I don’t know the answer, but this is my guess. A while back, there was a flurry of news sites talking about air conditioning being “sexist”. The short version is that standards for climate control were all written when offices were full of men in suits. Times have changed, in terms of who’s wearing what in which buildings, but things like building codes and temperature guidelines haven’t caught up.
Yeah, this is a thing, and I hear plenty of Americans make baffled complaints about it as well.
I don’t know the answer, but this is my guess. A while back, there was a flurry of news sites talking about air conditioning being “sexist”. The short version is that standards for climate control were all written when offices were full of men in suits. Times have changed, in terms of who’s wearing what in which buildings, but things like building codes and temperature guidelines haven’t caught up.