"Women Who Work" by Ivanka.

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“Women Who Work” is mostly composed of artless jargon (“All women benefit immeasurably by architecting their lives”) and inspirational quotes you might find by Googling “inspirational quotes.” Her exhortations feel even emptier than usual in light of Trump’s stated policy goals. “We must fight for ourselves, for our rights not just as workers but also as women,” Ivanka writes, and, elsewhere, “Honor yourself by exploring the kind of life you deserve.” The imagined audience for the book is so rarefied that Ivanka confidently calls paying bills and buying groceries “not enormously impactful” to one’s daily productivity. Her nannies are mentioned twice, if you count the acknowledgments; no other household help is alluded to at all. On the book’s second-to-last page, she finally, briefly mentions the need for paid leave and affordable childcare.

 

http://www.newyorker.com/books/page-turner/ivanka-trump-wrote-a-painfully-oblivious-book-for-basically-no-one

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“Women Who Work” is mostly composed of artless jargon ... and inspirational quotes you might find by Googling “inspirational quotes...” The imagined audience for the book is so rarefied that Ivanka confidently calls paying bills and buying groceries “not enormously impactful” to one’s daily productivity. Her nannies are mentioned twice, if you count the acknowledgments; no other household help is alluded to at all. On the book’s second-to-last page, she finally, briefly mentions the need for paid leave and affordable childcare.

 

Our most noted scholar on the needs of women apparently mustn't be bothered by the site of poor ones:

Police round up beggars in India ahead of Ivanka Trump’s arrival

 

Police in India are rounding up beggars in anticipation of senior presidential advisor daughter/wife Ivanka Trump’s visit at the end of November.

 

They are clearing the streets in Hyderabad in the south of India after the city’s police commissioner gave the order earlier this week. It will last for two months, the director general of prisons in Hyderabad, V.K. Singh said, CNNreported.

 

The order comes in advance of Trump’s plans to attend the Global Entrepreneurship Summit in the city—an Indian tech hub—at the end of November.

 

Authorities say the timing is coincidental and that the order is unrelated to the President’s daughter’s visit to the city.

 

“It’s a permanent drive,” Singh told CNN. “The government, since 30 years, have been trying to figure out what to do about them,” he said.

 

The commissioner reportedly plans to renew the order when it expires.

 

Singh addressed the wider issue of begging in Hyderabad and said it stems from an organized scheme.

 

“There is a mafia or a network behind this who force people to beg or kidnap some children and force them into begging,” he said.

 

Begging has been outlawed since 1977, but the recent campaign only started last month, prompting people to believe that the effort was connected to the upcoming summit.

 

So far, 198 people have been picked up, CNN reported. They’re being held in “structures” adjacent to prisons, according to Sing, CNN reported.

 

He insisted that the beggars had not been jailed, though.

 

Police say that authorities will first try to reach beggars’ families before sending them to the units.

 

“All the facilities are there — security, medical, food — and all the basic amenities are being made to take care of the inmates,” A, Narasimha, a senior police officer in the prisons department told CNN.

 

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