Well that was unexpected :D

The reasons you give may be a large part of it. I sometimes wonder whether men, on average, are even capable of empathizing as much as women (though I also wonder about how genuine women's empathizing is). And things don't seem to be getting better: modern men seem to be suffering from a crisis in friendships, too, as I recently discovered from this podcast. I knew that relationships in general are suffering (less people are having sex now than earlier generations!), but was unaware about the male friendships thing.