But at least she had the grant program, and its commensurate bragging rights. She may never have spoken out in favor of the regulation of pollutants that can harm child-bearing women more than any other demographic, or against the egregious Black maternal mortality rate in the United States, or against reproductive coercion of undocumented women by Trump officials. She may have done nothing to promote access to comprehensive reproductive health care for women domestically or abroad (because, by the end of her father’s term, she was “proudly pro-life”). She may have remained silent when Education Secretary Betsy DeVos gutted protections for sexual assault survivors on college campuses. She may have been working for a man credibly accused of sexual assault and misconduct by dozens of women and done nothing to support the women who accused her coworkers of gender-based violence. W-GDP and its accompanying grant programs were the entire basis of Ivanka’s tenuous claim that she was somehow a champion of women.
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She claimed multiple times that W-GDP had reached “12 million women.” On July 30, 2018, Ivanka even implied that the $265 million program might hold the key to world peace, tweeting, “When women are empowered to reach their full economic potential, countries thrive and stability and peace prevail!” In November 2020 she called herself W-GDP’s “founder” and said that it was her advocacy that got the WEEE signed into law. She celebrated the six-month and 12-month anniversaries of W-GDP with speeches in Saudi Arabia and Dubai. She tweeted about it 50 times and gave countless speeches touting its effectiveness. Or, at least, she loved giving herself credit for all its accomplishments. Government agencies.” In other words, make sure that some of our international aid money was helping female business owners. This act dovetailed with Ivanka’s brainchild “W-GDP,” which, according to Politico, was sold as a way to “codify gender analysis and deliver targeted finance across the women’s programs of 10 U.S. Half of the grants were supposed to go to businesses owned and controlled by women, and the other half to support the “very poor,” with some overlap expected between the two categories. Under the WEEE, the US Agency for International Development (USAID) was charged with helping administer a $265 million grant to support micro, small, and medium-sized enterprises globally. The Women’s Entrepreneurship and Economic Empowerment Act of 2018 had noble intentions. This week, a new Government Accountability Office report on the First Daughter’s signature legislative accomplishment was, to use government jargon, a bit of a mess. I regret the error and have learned my lesson. In reality, she has emerged from her four-year stint in the Trump White House with nothing to show for it. All this time, I’d been thinking of her as a deeply mediocre child of legacy wealth, a veritable American princess of unearned stature, who emerged from a four-year stint in the Trump White House with one sort of cool piece of legislation to show for it. I also must admit today that I was wrong about Ivanka Trump.
There is no substantive engagement to be had with window-dressing. But it’s hard to engage substantively with a person whose work, time and time again, has proven to be nothing more than superficial. I admit that it’s not very feminist of me to critique the work of a woman by resorting to superficial observations.
We know that she was photographed often, and for those photographs she frequently wore sleeves so heinous that they may have violated the Geneva Conventions. We know that she spoke in a whispery Stepford voice in interviews with Fox News and a deeper, Glenne Headly’s last line in Dirty Rotten Scoundrels voice at campaign rallies.
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