it is a double edged sword. Hot women posses power over most men with only their beauty. The other side of the coin is ugly/ fat women posses no power what so ever. The same goes for women who are beyond their prime. Most women are too short sighted to realize this. History has a few exceptions such as Wu Chao who actually knew their power with their youth and Beauty were ephemeral , and secured their place in the history books with some pretty ruthless tactices.
From my experience, women change after college. Once they start realizing their looks aren't getting better, and their jobs suck ( face it , most average girls from average colleges aren't working at NASA), they start to lose that power they had in college. Its much easier to live on daddys credit card, than with their mediocre hourly job paying rent in some shanty.