It's hard to post thoughts in this thread without them being skewed by the anecdotal evidence in your own life.
That said, I think Jud T has it partially right with men who like to golf and want to play more encouraging family participation in the game, as opposed to looking at the game as an escape from that side of their life. However, even if that path is taken, there are many women, like my wife, who are not opposed to golf, but simply aren't going to allocate a lot of time toward it. She enjoys coming out as a family on a late afternoon a couple times a year and she hits the ball fairly well, but she'd much rather be doing yoga, or running or shopping than spending much time and treasure on golf. Our club is very easy to play for women, and it's rare that it's crowded enough for Men to get upset at women, but in some ways, it's because she's competitive, that golf frustrates her too much to spend a lot of time at it.
In regards to the following:
"3. I firmly believe that we are becoming increasingly matriarchal. Everywhere you look, women are getting advanced degrees and assuming management positions. They are going to night school or studying online , working long hours, and yet still expected to be the primary caregiver at home. Men have not picked up the slack at home with two wage earners, this leaves many women tired and depressed, and heart disease was once not a major killer of women compared to men, it is now a major killer. There are a lot of supermoms out there, it takes its toll, so golf is a low low priority."
I don't disagree with these comments at all. As for the impact of the working mother on golf in affluent circles, I've witnessed that it is the men who's spouses work that have more freedom than those who stay home to play golf on weekends. I'm not suggesting this is "right", and may be a result of *some* working mothers feeling the need to make up time at home from being away. That said, anecdotally, I feel there is often a sense of shared responsibility of family obligations and the desire to give each spouse a needed break when both parents work, that sometimes isn't there when one spouse stays home. In most affluent families today, the stay at home spouse was once reasonably successful in the workforce, and therefore asking the spouse to stay at home for 4 - 6 hours on the weekend continuing their "everyday" routine, feels like asking them to put in overtime.