It cannot be overstated how many men in positions of power in the fields of business/finance, politics and entertainment got there because they married into generational wealth and benefited from their wives’ financial safety net, social status and connections
During his divorce, Jack Welch’s first wife busted out decades of dinner invitations, seating charts, and correspondence to prove that he could not have written to the top of the corporate world without her meticulous cultivation of relationships among the elite