Amanda Marcotte believes so:
[O]ne thing I've noticed that turns an already sad situation into open warfare is when one person feels like the other person simply doesn't have the right to leave. While this can go both ways, since men are traditionally socialized to think of marriage as a claiming of a woman—you even get to name her after yourself!—men have, in the past, been more likely to refuse to accept the divorce. This escalates hostilities. But the men of my generation didn't get nearly the intense social training to believe your wife belongs to you, and so are more likely to get to the acceptance level of the divorce process faster if their wives leave them.
The Dish 