Cynthia Nixon Claims Cold Rooms Are 'Notoriously Sexist,' Asks for Cuomo Debate to Be 76 Degrees

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Cynthia Nixonis literally turning up the heat for her debate against Andrew Cuomo.

One day before her debate against New York Gov. Cuomo at Hofstra University in Long Island, New York, on Wednesday evening, Democratic gubernatorial challenger Nixon requested the debate hall’s thermostat be changed to a mild 76 degrees.

In the email, Katz argued that work environments are “notoriously sexist when it comes to temperature, so we just want to make sure we’re all on the same page here.”

Cuomo is well-known for wanting his public appearances to be made in chilled rooms. (In 2011, an assemblyman in attendance at a Cuomo speaking engagement likened the venue to a“meat locker.”)

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Another Nixon adviser supported the temperature change.

L. Joy Williams, a senior adviser to the Nixon campaign,tweeted: “Maybe you say 76 degrees and get 65 degrees instead of freezing at 50.”

Meanwhile, Cuomo’s campaign said it had not made any temperature-related requests.

In the past few years, researchers have determined that women are in overly air-conditioned workplaces.

Astudypublished in August 2015 revealed most office buildings set temperatures based on a decades-old formula that uses the metabolic rates of men. The study, which was conducted specifically in the summer, also observed that many men wear suits and ties, but many women wear skirts, sandals and “more skin-baring” clothes.

source: people.com