OF COURSE IT DOES: Ashe Schow: Women work more hours than men? Depends on the definition of ‘work.’

A new report spreading across the Internet seems designed to make women feel as though they’re being mistreated. And as with nearly all reports of this nature, some of the details are being left out.

Take this NBC News article on the World Economic Forum’s Global Gender Gap Report 2016, which boasts that “Women Work 39 Days More Than Men Per Year.” Nowhere in the article does NBC acknowledge that the extra work women are doing is household chores.

Instead, the article gives the impression that women are staying at the office longer but being paid less (because the report and news articles about it continue to spread the myth of the gender “wage gap” without explaining in detail that the gap is due largely to choices many women make and not discrimination). In reality, women are working 50 minutes more a day because of unpaid housework.

The BBC and others at least acknowledge this and point out that men do 34 percent more paid work than women on average. That’s confirmed in other reports. The Bureau of Labor Statistics finds year after year that men report working more paid hours a week than women.

It’s also confirmed in a new Gallup report that builds on the BLS estimates. Gallup found that 47 percent of men report working more than 40 hours a week, while just 30 percent of women say the same. Gallup is quick to note, however, that this doesn’t mean men work harder than women.

The rule on gender research, as Ann Althouse noted years ago, is that you can find any difference between men and women that you want, so long as you portray it in ways that establish women’s superiority. Or victimhood.