"I have been studying this phenomenon in the church for over a decade. It is being driven by a feminization of the churches in the USA..."
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I've reread that several times...I think you're on to something. Women preachers, women teaching the adult classes, women picking out the carpeting, women leading the song services, women leading the young married classes, women in charge of the youth groups, women evangelists (where ARE their husbands? Home cooking & cleaning?)
Precisely!
I have been leading a men's group at our church for over fifteen years focused on this problem. Through the authority of the Bible, which feminists hate, men lead and are given the tools through nature to do this. We live in an age that opposes authority of any type (particularly the ones granted by Scripture) and those who are being classed as "protected" are now "free" and seeking their revenge for the oppressions they perceive they suffered. As if they cannot realize the ones who "freed" them are the same they now claimed to have "enslaved" them. They choose to dwell on the dark side of every circumstance because it is of their nature.
As they advance, Christian males invariably retreat. For every foot they gain, Christian males lose. It ought not be this way. My great hope was that Promise Keepers would rally the hearts of men to take what authority (and responsibility) granted them seriously and standup for truth. It hasn't happened yet and the great slumber continues.
Probably at home sleeping, reading the Sunday paper or sitting on the sofa with the remote. A lot of men think religion is for women and kids. It's no wonder the church has been 'feminized.'
Fortunately, the church I attend now is full of families, and the adult singles are about equal male and female. That hasn't been true of most churches I've attended.