As a whole, when they're younger, I think women are attracted to the "rebels"; more often, according to my Freudian viewpoint, men who are like their fathers... whether men admit it or not, they do the same thing with their girlfriends/mothers, too.
Many, many women I know have had fathers who are distant, workaholics, emotionally unresponsive, domineering, etc... and so they go for those type of men.
However, I know that the vast majority do eventually grow out of it, in most aspects.