On the scent of the real Ivanka
Ivanka Trump's self-styled persona of feminist hero and paragon of virtue is starting to risibly fray at the edges.
THE next time you hear about the sway that Ivanka Trump holds over her father and what a powerful advocate for equal opportunity she is, I want you to remember these numbers: Twenty. That's how many men are in, or poised to join, the president's Cabinet.
Four. That's how many women.
Barack Obama's first Cabinet included seven. Bill Clinton's, six. George W Bush's, four, same as Trump's, but that was 16 years ago, and he didn't have an adult daughter who styled herself as both an influential adviser and a feminist hero. Where precisely is the Ivanka Effect?
She won't be engaging this riddle in her new book, Women Who Work, due out in early May, and I say that not because I know what's in it - I don't - but because I know Ivanka, or at least I've been watching her closely for a while. She doesn't take r…
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