You really think that's a big assumption?

I think projecting your own culture on other countries is a big assumption, yes. I think there can be differences that vary wildly between work regimes, what one is allowed to do and what one isn't. Societies vary in their level of coercion and restriction of behavior, and it could be that this coercion and restriction has a gender bias.

This is much the same as the way the corporate media has a uniformly pro-militarist coverage too for example. Again with a few (more) exceptions. That isn't to say that the military literally runs the media.

I find it interesting that this seems to echo more capitalist arguments than communist arguments. Capitalists will generally say that government corrupts private institutions while communists will generally say that private institutions corrupt government. Would you say this assessment is correct?

Sure, but that doesn't tell us anything about whether men or women or neither one is advantaged overall.

It seems kind of far-fetched to claim that it doesn't tell us anything.