It seems that the girls have less trouble surrendering. They just throw themselves in, crying, "Krishna! Krishna!"
"Women are soft-hearted," Srila Prabhupada says, "but unfortunately they are fickle, too. They are quick to accept and reject. They come to Krishna consciousness quickly, out of sentiment, and then some boy comes along, and they reject everything. Men are not so quick to accept, but once they have accepted, they are more reluctant to reject. So the male is considered a higher birth because a man is more likely to understand Krishna consciousness and therefore remain steady. In Vedic culture, the woman is considered weak. Soft-hearted. She should be protected, not given freedom to roam about, like in this country. Therefore we are marrying our girls to nice Krishna conscious boys."
- From the "The Hare Krishna Explosion" by HG Hayagriva dasa