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The 2016 Republican Convention was a celebration of hate. It consisted of racist slurs and people calling for Hillary Clinton to be “[locked] up.” Ivanka Trump’s speech, however, was composed of some optimism for the future. She made promises for women across America hoping to achieve gender equality. However, she has been a special advisor for her father since late March, and not once has she followed up on her pledges.

Ivanka promised to fix major aspects of gender inequalities that affect millions of women. Two of the crucial promises Ivanka made for what her father’s administration would do for women are the following: fight for equal pay for equal work and make quality child care affordable and accessible to all.  

On average, women in the US currently earn 79 cents for every dollar a man earns, according to Business Insider. Also, women over the age of 65 earn less in all fields of income in comparison to their male counterparts. These occurrences are despite the Equal Pay Act passed 54 years ago.

As of late 2015, the Economic Policy Institute declared, “High quality child care is out of reach for working families.” In rural South Carolina, monthly childcare costs for a four-year-old are about $344, and in Washington D.C. it is about $1,472. Additionally, in states such as New York, Wyoming and Nevada, child care costs exceeded college tuition. Many single mothers struggle to send their kids to childcare, because their average yearly income is $25,493, according to Legal Momentum.

Ivanka’s promises are clearly vital, and she has the ability to help implement them. After all, CNN called her “the most powerful Jewish woman in America.” But instead, she is proving to not have the slightest regard for her commitments. And even worse, Ivanka has let her father try to take health care away from millions of women. The American Healthcare Act (AHCA), which her father strongly supports, seeks to defund Planned Parenthood. This would be catastrophic for women across the country. Every year, Planned Parenthood provides birth control to nearly 2 million people, carries out 320,000 breast exams, and provides 250,000 Pap tests, as Planned Parenthood states. Moreover, more than half of Planned Parenthood’s health care centers are in rural and underserved communities.

Ivanka Trump is exceptionally powerful. She is the only first daughter to ever have a West Wing office and a chief of staff. But still, she is abandoning women across the country. Ivanka is not being the champion for women that her speech made her out to be.

After seventy-some days of having an official White House role, Ivanka should listen to Obama’s words: “When women succeed, America succeeds.”

Women’s rights affect all Americans, regardless of gender. Yet, Ivanka continues to support her father’s misogynistic administration. Her father undid the Fair Pay and Safe Workplaces executive order, which made it easier for federal contractors with violations of sex discrimination to continue to receive federal funding. In addition, he reinstated the “global gag rule,” which made it harder for women worldwide to acquire thorough access to health care.  

Obama’s administration proved to possess a progressive outlook on women’s rights. For instance, Obama signed the Lilly Ledbetter Fair Pay Act, which gave women the opportunity to sue their employer if they discover their male counterpart is receiving higher payments for the same work. Nevertheless, Americans took those sort of actions for granted, as the 2016 election showed.

Women’s rights rest in Ivanka’s hands. It would be immoral for her to simply ignore her father’s regression from moral Obama-era policies. She needs to not only stand up against her father’s conduct, but also follow through with her word.

As part of an untruthful administration, will Ivanka have a change of heart and execute her promises, or was her speech just for the glow?