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To think Ivonka Trumps Women Who Work is insincere

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jdoe8 · 12/11/2016 12:52

She doesn't live in the real world, works for her dad that will never sack her and has mountains of money for help.

In the real world you have to deal with reapplying for your job else your unemployed, issues with tax credits and the headaches these cause, having to move away from all your family and friends as house prices are too expensive where you were born and raised. I could go on!

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jdoe8 · 14/11/2016 13:26

I quite like Ivanka. I read her book a few years ago (the first one, she also has a new one coming out), and she was very honest about the fact that she had a leg up from her Dad, but also made the point that he wouldn't have let her have such a senior position if she hadn't been good. Her dad gave her a flat, but she had to pay a mortgage on it, and she is proud that she never missed a payment. I'm not saying she's awful at her job, but really I dont think she was ever at risk of being unemployed or homeless.

*It must be so hard to be a full time working mother like Ivanka who has a nanny, a cleaner, a cook, a personal shopper, top notch private health care, children at private schools, tutors, a personal stylist, the most expensive education money could buy, regular foreign holidays, private air travel, a personal trainer, multiple homes all over the world, no mortgage.

How does she do it! *

This a million times. As others said its the patronising tone.

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