This is how it has always worked, in any country.

A man, throught strength, determination, and grit makes his way to the top of the hierarchy. He marries a woman or two, as one does, and they instantly have the ear of the most powerful man in the land, having earned exactly none of it.

That's the biggest joke of feminism, the idea that women are kept from positions of power in society. No, they don't earn those positions, but they always have them.