Ivanka Trump lectures CEOs on wage equality after saying in an Equal Pay Day message: 'We must work to close the gender pay gap!'
- Said in an early morning tweet: '#EqualPayDay is a reminder that women deserve equal pay for equal work. We must work to close the gender pay gap!'
- Talked about equal pay later at a White House summit for CEOs
- Promised in July at the Republican National Convention that her father would back wage equality if he made it to the White House - and she would, too
- Ivanka is a senior adviser and special assistant to her father as of last week
- She's made women's empowerment a major part of her White House portfolio
- White House has not taken a formal stance on equal pay legislation pushed by Democrats
- Is traveling to Berlin later this month to attend a women's economic summit at the invitation of Angela Merkel
Ivanka Trump took her plea for equal pay for equal work directly to CEOs at a Tuesday summit at the White House.
Ivanka told CEOs attending the morning event that encouraging young women to pursue jobs in STEM professions - science, technology, engineering, and mathematics - will help to reduce the pay gap.
'It's really important we think about the introduction of girls in STEM fields in our school system...because when we think about equal pay and the challenge we have to finally level the playing field, I think this will be a very important component,' the first daughter and senior adviser to the president said.
Ivanka joined women across America in promoting Equal Pay Day on Tuesday, saying in an early morning tweet, '#EqualPayDay is a reminder that women deserve equal pay for equal work. We must work to close the gender pay gap!'
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Ivanka Trump took her plea for equal pay for equal work directly to CEOs at a Tuesday summit at the White House
Ivanka Trump spoke on a panel Tuesday at the Eisenhower Executive Office Building on business. In her remarks, she said CEOs should encourage women to go into STEM professions
Ivanka Trump joined women across America in promoting Equal Pay Day on Tuesday on Twitter
'It's really important we think about the introduction of girls in STEM fields in our school system...because when we think about equal pay and the challenge we have to finally level the playing field, I think this will be a very important component,' the first daughter and senior adviser to the president said
The first daughter is seen leaving her Washington, D.C. home on Tuesday afternoon
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Her post linked to a USA Today article that said women are paid eighty cents for every dollar a man makes. Black and Latina women earn 68 cents and 62 cents per dollar, respectively, the piece said.
The eldest daughter of the president promised in July at the Republican National Convention that her father would back wage equality if he made it to the White House - and she would, too.
In bringing pay equity up as she introduced her dad on the most-watched night party's nominating, Ivanka recast the issue as a bipartisan one after years of Republican opposition to legislation addressing disparities in compensation.
Donald Trump's White House has taken not taken a formal stance on a law proposed by Democrats that would force businesses to be transparent about pay.
Companies would also be prohibited under the Paycheck Fairness Act from punishing workers who discuss their salaries with one another.
The president voiced support for wage equality during his candidacy.
'If they do the same job, they should get the same pay,' he said in August of 2015.
But he contended at the time that it would be 'dangerous' to mandate equal pay through federal policy.
'It’s very hard to say what is the same job,' he said on MSNBC to 'Morning Joe' co-host Mika Brzezinski. 'It’s a very, very tricky question.
Continuing, Trump told her, 'I talked about competition with other places and other parts of the world, Mika. This is one of the things we have to look at very strongly.'
Trump landed himself in frying pan several months later when he told a New Hampshire student asking about equal pay who turned out to be a Jeb Bush intern, 'You’re gonna make the same if you do as good a job.'
Hillary Clinton subsequently claimed in the waning days of the general election campaign that her Republican opponent 'doesn't believe in equal pay' while she filleted him for 'demeaning, degrading, insulting, and assaulting women.'
Ivanka had reaffirmed at the July convention that her father does believe in the policy broadly, however, as she worked to improve his image with female voters.
'Politicians talk about wage equality, but my father has made it a practice at his company throughout his entire career,' she said. 'He will fight for equal pay for equal work, and I will fight for this too, right along side of him.'
Ivanka has made women's empowerment a major part of her portfolio at the White House.
Even before she accepted a formal position, the first daughter was participating in White House summits for working women. She joined her father and Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau at the February launch of a task force highlighting female entrepreneurs.
After sitting in on a meeting with German business leaders when Chancellor Angela Merkel came to the White House, Ivanka accepted an invitation to attend a women's economic summit in Berlin later this month.
Germany has 'led the way' on apprenticeships, Ivanka said at the CEO town hall on Tuesday.
The USA Today article Ivanka linked to on Tuesday cites a McKinsey study that said full pay equity could raise global GDP by 11 to 26 percent by 2025 - a $12 trillion to $28 trillion increase.
Equal pay is a traditionally Democratic cause, and legislators on the left are reintroducing the Paycheck Fairness Act again today in the House of Representatives as a symbolic gesture in support of Equal Pay Day.
In 2014, Republicans used a procedural mechanism to keep the legislation from coming to the floor of the Senate.
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