This is a perfect example that it is still not normal for a man to want to be more at home. Had you been a woman El Jefe wouldn't make such a fuss.
You handled it as a man and that's (strangely enough) a great compliment in the Netherlands, it means you handled it perfectly!
I will take that compliment happily!! Yes, I thought too that it was a bit sexist really. He was totally angling at the fact that I was a man and their why on earth would I want to spend time with them. Idiot!