Three times Ivanka Trump took action against women
France has just proposed to Ivanka Trump to sit on the G7 council on gender equality. A choice to say the least surprising.
She is her father's feminist guarantee. Ivanka Trump claims to be defending the rights of American women in an administration that is hostile to them, but for many she is just a facade.
However, France has just offered him a seat at the G7 table on equality between women and men. Highlighting Ivanka Trump's fights for maternity leave, or even the economic emancipation of women, the Secretary of State for Equality between Women and Men, Marlène Schiappa, even described her as "a strong voice on gender equality ”.
A choice and a speech that amazes more than one, Ivanka Trump showing herself as an unwavering support for her father, Donald Trump, since taking office at the White House in 2016. From then on, the latter has of elsewhere multiplied political choices to the detriment of women and minorities. Ivanka Trump, in addition to endorsing those of her father as an official advisor, has also accumulated a few pots.
Reverse on equal pay
She had made equal pay and professional equality between women and men her main concern. But in 2017, Ivanka Trump approved the withdrawal of a law passed by Obama that required transparency from companies with more than 100 employees. Business leaders were to inform the salaries as well as the gender and ethnicity of their employees, in order to allow the government to point out discrimination. Except that the measure never entered into force.
"The intention was good, and I agree that pay transparency is important, nevertheless the proposed law will not achieve the desired results," she tried to justify.
Anti-abortion corruption
The president of family planning in the United States, an organization battered since the start of Donald Trump's mandate, accused Ivanka Trump and her husband Jared Kushner of attempted bribery. Cécile Richard assures us that in 2017 the president's daughter would have offered to "secure" the federal subsidies distributed to the schedules against the end of the practice of abortion.
Obviously, President Richard refused and denounced this proposal. Especially since a law already prohibits Planning from allocating the same federal funding to abortions.
Many American women are currently seeing their rights to abortion shrink by state. The latest example in June 2018, when the United States Supreme Court ruled against California, which wanted to require anti-abortion centers to inform their patients about the possibility of having an abortion in another establishment.
Disconnected "feminist"
Since her debut in politics, Ivanka Trump has tried to surround herself with an image of an ally of women. The most glaring example: his book Women Who Work, published after the presidential elections, even if written before them.
Problem, in the latter, the daughter of Donald Trump distils rather banal advice and far from the concerns of the majority of women. Among them: how to successfully negotiate a contract with the help of a lawyer - which many American women cannot afford - or how to combine private and professional life. We are still there.
The author also confides on "difficult" moments in her daily life, such as the time when she had to "deprive herself of massages" during her father's mad race for president. Ivanka Trump, a woman like any other? To others.
