Women inherently being the party with the least interest on average is the main reason for that. Because of that, their partner has to take initiative way more and put themselves in a vulnerable, powerless position more frequently, while the woman is more often in the position to decide if anything happens or not. This gives women an insane amount of power over their partner who has more interest. Women's low interest also makes women's demands and requirements towards their partner way higher than men's, and makes them less likely to tolerate dissatisfactory actions from their partner.

Men, on the other hand, are almost always the party with more interest. More likely to take initiative and significantly less likely to decline initiative from partner, more likely to compromise and accept less if that's what their partner demands, more likely to stay in a relationship that doesn't satisfy them as much as they would like.

I believe that for this reason, even if there were no societal gender roles and expectations pushed onto people, dating would still be heavily lopsided in favor of women on average. Women's low interest is also the reason why they initiate divorce so much more, and why they have dramatically more sexual and romantic options compared to men.