There's a big difference between "a suggestion to send an all female crew cause they eat less and have smaller muscles" and "as long as men are around to open doors for them, women can do almost everything a man can".
No. That's the exact same thing. Only phrased differently.
Both those lines define women as weak, small and incapable to perform physical work.
Only difference is that the "men to open doors" line is more direct with the backhandedness, while "eat less small muscles" would be more sinister - cause it does not criticize (in)directly, but "sparks debate".
Like this whole slashdot topic.
Women of the same weight as men have a 5-10% lower basal metabolic rate (and that bmr typically accounts for 60-70% of your total energy expended - source).
Read your source again.
Women in general, have a metabolic rate about 5-10% lower than men even when of the same weight and height. Men generally burn more calories at rest than women because they naturally have more muscle.
Exercise builds muscle.
Have them doing the same muscle-maintaining exercises during their trip and see how men and women of same weight and build fare then.
The whole article only indicates that maybe men were doing more exercise.
Meanwhile, that 1475 calories per day woman was chasing an Auschwitz diet. Which was designed to, combined with hard labor, exterminate people.
If she was not losing weight, only component missing is hard labor.
OR... Bad science. Badly measured or misreported measurements.
Or that woman is beyond petite and more like a midget.
http://www.holocaustresearchpr...
Food
Prisoners in the camp received three meals daily - in the morning, at midday and in the evening.
In the morning the prisoners received only a half litre of black coffee or of a herbal brew known as tea. These liquids were generally unsweetened.
The midday meal consisted of one portion of soup measuring about three quarters of a litre, with a value of 350 - 400 calories. The soup was foul tasting and watery, with 'meat' four times a week and the rest with vegetables.
For supper the prisoners were given about 300 grams of bread and something extra in the shape of about 25 grams of sausage or margarine, or a spoonful of jam or cheese. The food value of supper came to about 900 - 1000 calories
Given such hunger rations most prisoners after a few weeks in the camp began to develop symptoms of exhaustion, which led in consequence to people being reduced to the state of 'Moslems'.
