It is absolutely the case that women prioritise money. They actually select men based on whether their lifestyle is "exciting", in other words, can he go to fancy resorts, restaurants, can he buy me LV bags, etc etc, they prioritise this over loyalty, kindness and intelligence, research has found. Those last three are "nice to haves", but women want the man with the successful and exciting lifestyle, ie the money. That's why billionaire novels sell so well for women and why 50 Shades of Grey" has a billionaire protagonist, like so many chicklit novels. Women select based on money, they want the resources. Nowhere is this more apparent than in Thailand, where women abandon their own kind, their own people, and seek out foreigners from another land, whose language they don't speak, just for the money.
People say women go for jerks, but they don't, they go for what they deem attractive, ie guys with a great lifestyle, ie who have a lot of money, and it just so happens that those guys often are jerks. Women don't select for it, it's an incidental quality of guys who have obtained a lot of money usually.
Not always do women seek resources of course, if a surfer dude is dead attractive, he'll do for the night. But for long term, the dude better have a good lifestyle. ie money.