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by obrisintor 2645 days ago
All but the two of the reasons boil down to, they are more men in that subject than women. A higher men to women ratio of astronauts, scientists, infantry soldiers and athletes mean that it makes sense that more of the equipment would be oriented towards men. Similarly I would assume that make up sets have small parts that are more appropriate for smaller women hand's than women's.

As for office temperature, I have never worked at a place where the temperature was dictated by a study. Everywhere I worked it was either the person sitting closest to the thermostat, the manager or a consensus that picked the temperature. But I assume that there may be places that go buy the stated study. Even in that case saying something like: > "For all the corporate talk about teamwork, it's hard to feel part of a team when you are placed in an inhospitable physical environment." Is a huge exaggeration and doesn't help accomplish anything

As for phone screen, I assume that men buy about the same amount as women. Yet the phone companies realized that if they make larger phones people will still buy it. The fault lies on the women for buying large phones rather than smaller ones, thereby letting phone companies know that making phones bigger is okay.