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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.

Published Fri, Mar 17, 2017 · 09:50 PM
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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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