Gender differences in environment evaluation for office building

Gender Matters! Thermal Comfort and Individual Perception of Indoor Environmental Quality: A Literature Review

“…Overall, Karjalainen (2007) concludes that women feel more comfortable at higher temperatures. These results coincide with results from other studies (Bajc & Milanović, 2019;Indraganti & Rao, 2010;Jowkar et al, 2020;Jimin Kim et al, 2019;Jungsoo Kim et al, 2013;Parsons, 2002). Women have a preference for a slightly warmer environment, while Literature review Impact of indoor environmental quality on occupant well-being and comfort: A review of the literature Al Literature review Occupant productivity and office indoor environment quality: A review of the literature Frontczak and Wargocki (2011) Literature review Literature survey on how different factors influence human comfort in indoor environments Karjalainen (2012) Literature review Thermal comfort and gender: a literature review Jungsoo Kim, de Dear, Cândido, Zhang, and Arens (2013) Literature review and data analysis Gender differences in office occupant perception of indoor environmental quality (IEQ) Wang et al (2018) Literature review Individual difference in thermal comfort: A literature review…”

Rethinking sustainability towards a regenerative economy

“…Overall, Karjalainen (2007) concludes that women feel more comfortable at higher temperatures. These results coincide with results from other studies (Bajc & Milanović, 2019;Indraganti & Rao, 2010;Jowkar et al, 2020;Jimin Kim et al, 2019;Jungsoo Kim et al, 2013;Parsons, 2002). Women have a preference for a slightly warmer environment, while Except Japan and South Korea, women are more dissatisfied than men with their thermal environments in all countries investigated; female subjects in Asia are 37.3% (p < 0.001, N = 22,343) more likely to be dissatisfied with their thermal environments than their male counterparts (continued) men prefer slightly cooler conditions.…”

“…(Chang & Kajackaite, 2019: 1). A study by Bajc and Milanović (2019) came to similar results: men in office environments were more sensitive to higher temperatures but more tolerant to noise, while women tolerated higher temperatures but were more sensitive to poor air quality. The higher sensitivity of women compared to men about IEQ, particularly thermal comfort and air quality, is also confirmed in other studies (Simone & Fajilla, 2019).…”

“…The study authors came to interesting results: women are more tolerant of noise than men, but more critical of thermal aspects than men. A study from Belgrade (Bajc & Milanović, 2019) came to different conclusions: men were more tolerant to noise, while women were more sensitive to poor air quality. Nevertheless, that gender is not only affecting thermal perception, but also other comfort criteria like acoustic, humidity comfort, visual comfort, air quality or lighting, as confirmed in other studies (Bae et al, 2020;Jungsoo Kim et al, 2013;Kraus & Novakova, 2019;Pigliautile et al, 2020;Yang & Moon, 2019).…”

“…Under the same thermal conditions, women are 50% more often dissatisfied with the indoor climate than men (Karjalainen, 2012). Women are more likely to perceive the indoor temperature as too cold or, in some cases, too warm (Bajc & Milanović, 2019;Indraganti & Rao, 2010;Jowkar et al, 2020;Karjalainen, 2007;Jimin Kim et al, 2019;Parsons, 2002). Karjalainen (2007) found in a quantitative study in Finland that 18% of women, but only 8% of men, feel uncomfortably cold on a weekly basis, or more often (weekly, daily, or continuously) at home.…”