The Ivanka Trump Guarantee - Lindy West

[DonViejo]

Lindy West SEPT. 6, 2017

Ivanka Trump, first daughter, strode into Washington back in January with big promises: She was passionate about helping “working women,” she said, and she was going to close the gender wage gap even if it killed her.

Well, not if it killed her, not literally, but even if it mildly inconvenienced her, she was on it 110 percent, for the women. Well, not if it mildly inconvenienced her, she’s very busy, but definitely if there was a wage transparency policy already in place, she would not openly and glowingly support overturning it.

Well, unless her dad wanted to overturn it because doing so satisfied two of his top 10 vindictive fixations (constraining women’s independence and destroying the legacy of America’s first black president), but Ms. Trump would absolutely offer a better replacement solution, such as saying the words “child care credit” and “female entrepreneurs” repeatedly near a camera while wearing a blush-pink toggle coat. That, ladies, is the Ivanka Guarantee. Enjoy your money!

Ms. Trump’s self-professed commitment to corporate gender parity (about as milquetoast as feminism gets, but in Trump’s America, radicalism is relative) was trotted out incessantly during the campaign, especially as an antidote to her father’s self-professed commitment to nonconsensually sticking his hands on women’s genitals.

Yet, in a statement last week, Ms. Trump endorsed the decision to abandon an Obama-era initiative, set to go into effect next spring, requiring federal contractors and companies above a certain size to report salary data. “Ultimately,” Ms. Trump explained, “while I believe the intention was good and agree that pay transparency is important, the proposed policy would not yield the intended results.”

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https://www.nytimes.com/2017/09/06/opinion/the-ivanka-trump-labor-women.html?emc=edit_th_20170906&nl=todaysheadlines&nlid=57435284

[brush]

1. Seems like the Ivanka Guarantee is in trump admin. parlance, a nothing burger.

[IronLionZion]

2. You got to love people against reporting data

as in the very act of collecting information is bad somehow, if they worry what the data might expose and don't want us to know.

[ATL Ebony]

3. Unless it's collecting data regarding voter information -- that data is ok and necessary.