Are men clingy

Some one the other day described men as "clinging".  By that they meant that men coming out of a relationship were unable to cut the tie and make a break for a new future. Needless to say the view came from a woman and was heartily seconded by another.
So is this the view of most women and is there any truth in it, do men find it more difficult to separate when the relationship is at an end. Are men more sentimental than women, do they build castles in the air from which they find it hard to escape.
We are dealing in generalities of course each situation is different. The Jane Austin era depicted women as heavily dependant on men and therefore the breakup of a relationship was of economic importance even more than emotional. This view was portrayed in the writing of most authors up until the end of the Second World War when women's emancipation was made fact by the numbers of women who had to fill the men's shoes whilst they were away fighting.  Education and the confidence that it brings has obviously made women believe in themselves as individuals and not as previously, appendages to a matrimonial arrangement.
Where has this left men. The gender characteristic of provider and defender has fallen away and now the current view is of an equal and shared relationship with the edge now passing to the women through  her retention of the rights that were fostered when she needed protecting and her ordained supremacy when it comes to matters of children. The man, in matrimonial terms is now the follower, perhaps it is this subordination which makes him seem "clingy".  Just as the women were in Austin's day, his hold over any situation is tenuous, he is at the call of an individual who for many reasons, some medical, has wide mood swings and is, like the wind on the sail of a boat constantly changing, needing a skilled hand on the tiller to steer a steady course. It demands the patience of Job and the tactical skill of a Caesar to have any hope of reaching the safety of the harbour. 
Clingy is a depreciating term and yet a man who stood by his partner through thick and thin was in the past to be commended so where do we find an understanding between the yin and the yan, and the differences between men and women of which are many. 
Women are more resolute they seem to be able to compartmentalise things better than men do. It's often the claim that women can handle many tasks at once keep all the balls in the air so to speak whist men seem better at tackling the single project to the exclusion of all else. Men presume much more and assume that the world of their creation is in place, even when clearly it isn't. They are more romantic. I know this is not how it's portrayed but I think men in creatng false castles, forget to maintain them on the assumption that, being of their making it has the strength of their resolve and that is enough. Men come to relationships slowly and are hard to dislodge from the safety of their pack but once dislodged they are putty in a woman's hand because they still have the confusion, sown in their minds in childhood that their role is one of leadership and protection whilst in fact they are but bit players in the life of the family. Women make the hard decisions and are good at it. It comes from the maternal protection built into every women that they know best with regards to the child, be there a child in the relationship or not, its in the psychological make up of survival and there is no hesitation in take hard decisions. A man will sentimentalise his rational for doing things, a women never. Her road is clear, her eyes are fixed, her attention unswervable. 
Are men clingy, probably yes but it makes them the more loveable in the sense that they are more human in the way that men open their arms "wider" to encompass more of humanity.