Everyone have their desires and when they meet it will make them happy, in general we say female love towards materialistic life but men love to buy cars if they have the opportunity it's no different than buying clothes or cosmetics.
Money can buy you happiness that's the end of story.
And whoever says that doesn't have money so they use this as an excuse to convince themselves.
I think op is a novice because I don't know why we should have to shift everything to women of seeing happiness to be a thing of money to women. It is ignorance that would make him to think that women are just after the money and that's what keep them happiness.
Happiness comes from rest of mind. When we are happy with our environment and people around us, then it is not necessarily to be because of money that we have. There are so many people that are happy these days not because of the money they are getting but because of the success they are seeing from the jobs they are doing. Love gives happiness because we all needs love and when we don't get it even though we have the money, we are not going to be happy at all.