The Davos mistresses

Not only are they treated shabbily by the mucky-mucks (they only get the plebe-level white name tag), but there are legions of mistresses in waiting who book hotel rooms and prowl the streets in hopes of snaring their guys! Of course, sometimes they'll peruse the rich-and-powerful racks themselves. Anya Schiffrin, author of "Bad News," and the wife of Nobel Prize Winner Joseph Stiglitz, lays out the scene for Reuters:

Typically their men are swallowed up by a tsunami of meetings and interviews and don't have the time or inclination to take their mistresses around with them. Often these men go to high-level dinners to which wives and mistresses are not invited. The skinny and beautifully dressed Davos Mistress typically hangs around the auditoriums waiting for a couple of minutes with her man. While waiting, she keeps her eyes peeled looking to search and destroy the competition.

The wives don't exactly have it easy either. They also have white name tags that do not identify where they're from:

This means there is nothing on it that could help a stranger strike up a conversation. If you don't use your husband's name then you are guaranteed virtual anonymity. Upon being introduced to someone new, the normal Davos gesture is not to look at the face of the person they are meeting but to look down at his/her name tag. The wives' name tag guarantees that the Davos man in question will instantly decide you are of no value and so he immediately looks over your shoulder for the next best opportunity, i.e. someone without a white name tag who is, by definition, more important than you. Many wives refuse to be Davos wives and the white name tag is the reason they most often cite for their decision to stay home.