双语资讯：为什么写字楼里的空调歧视女性

Summers are hot in Omaha, where heat indexes can top 100 degrees. But Molly Mahannah is prepared.

奥马哈市的夏天非常热，其酷热指数最高可以达到华氏100度（约合摄氏37.8度）。但莫莉·马哈纳(Molly Mahannah)对此有所准备。

At the office, she bundles up in cardigans or an oversized sweatshirt from her file drawer. Then, she says, “I have a huge blanket at my desk that I ve got myself wrapped in like a burrito.” Recently, “I was so cold, I was like I m just going to sit in my car in like 100-degree heat for like five minutes, and bake. ”

在办公室里，她会从文件抽屉里拿出羊毛开衫或者大号运动衫，穿在身上。然后说，“我的办公桌旁还常备着一个大毯子，可以把自己像做玉米卷饼一样裹起来。”最近，“我觉得特别冷，就会想，要到自己的车里坐上五分钟，那里有华氏100度，可以暖和暖和。”

Ms. Mahannah, 24, who wrote on Twitter that at work she felt like an icy White Walker from “Game of Thrones,” said a female co-worker at her digital marketing agency cloaked herself in sweaters, too. But the men? “They re in, like, shorts.” 24岁的马哈纳在Twitter上说，在办公室里，她觉得自己像是《权力的游戏》(Game of Thrones)里冰冷的“白鬼”(White Walker)。还说在她所在的数字营销机构里，一名女性同事也穿上了毛衣。但男人们呢？“他们穿着，短裤之类的。”

Right. It happens every summer: Offices turn on the air-conditioning, and women freeze into Popsicles.

没错。每年夏天都是如此：办公室里开着空调，女人们冻成了冰棒。

Finally, scientists (two men, for the record) are urging an end to the Great Arctic Office Conspiracy. Their study, published Monday in the journal Nature Climate Change, says that most office buildings set temperatures based on a decades-old formula that uses the metabolic rates of men. The study concludes that buildings should “reduce gender-discriminating bias in thermal comfort” because setting temperatures at slightly warmer levels can help combat global warming.

终于，科学家们（特别声明，是两位男士）开始呼吁终结“办公室北极大阴谋”(Great Arctic Office Conspiracy)。他们周一在《自然·气候变化》(Nature Climate

Change)杂志发表的一项研究显示，大多数写字楼的温度设置，都是基于一种几十年不曾改变的公式，这一公式是依据男性的代谢率设定的。这项研究的结论是，写字楼应该“减少热舒适度方面的性别歧视”，因为将室温水平略微提高，有助于应对全球变暖问题。

“In a lot of buildings, you see energy consumption is a lot higher because the standard is calibrated for men s body heat production,” said Boris Kingma, a co-author of the study and a biophysicist at Maastricht University Medical Center in the Netherlands. “If you have a more accurate view of the thermal demand of the people

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