First daughter Ivanka Trump, who made wage equality and workplace protections for women one of her signature issues on the campaign trail and in her personal brand, declared her support for the White House’s announcement Tuesday that it will halt a proposal requiring businesses to disclose employees’ pay, gender, race and ethnicity.
“While I believe the intention was good and agree that pay transparency is important, the proposed policy would not yield the intended results,” Trump told the Wall Street Journal. “We look forward to continuing to work with EEOC, OMB, Congress and all relevant stakeholders on robust policies aimed at eliminating the gender wage gap.”
Neomi Rao, the head of the Office of Information and Regulatory Affairs, told the Wall Street Journal that the rule would have been “enormously burdensome.”
“We don’t believe it would actually help us gather information about wage and employment discrimination,” she said.
Former President Barack Obama’s administration proposed the rule in 2016 to collect wage and pay data from employers for the Equal Employment Opportunity Commission to analyze.
According to the Wall Street Journal, the White House said the information that would be collected under the rule would be too excessive to comply with the federal Paperwork Reduction Act.
Trump in April tweeted in support of Equal Pay Day and said, “We must work to close the gender pay gap!”
#EqualPayDay is a reminder that women deserve equal pay for equal work. We must work to close the gender pay gap! https://t.co/CcwsoBXWdF
— Ivanka Trump (@IvankaTrump) April 4, 2017
She touted her father as someone who would fight for equal pay, and made support for working women a central pillar of her personal brand, though neither appear to have borne fruit in Trump’s new role as a senior member of her father’s administration.
The Queen of Ivankastan pisses profusely on her pissant peasants. Pathetic…
“requiring businesses to disclose employees’ pay, gender, race and ethnicity.”
“We don’t believe it would actually help us gather information about wage and employment discrimination,” she said.”
Because it is actually information which obviously will not help quantify the situation.
That picture captures it perfectly: "“Qu’ils mangent de la brioche.”
She could have just been quiet about this, but no.
This list of information is apparently burdensome to compile, four items.
Why does this immediately make me think of the “Election Integrity Commission”'s request of HOW MANY ITEMS about every single voter in the U.S.?
ETA: This article had a list of some of the data requested CNN July article
“The information the commission is seeking includes registrants’ full
names, addresses, dates of birth, political parties, the last four
digits of their social security numbers, a list of the elections they
voted in since 2006, information on any felony convictions, information
on whether they were registered to vote in other states, their military
status, and whether they lived overseas.”
Can we please stop pretending that Ivanka trump is some champion of women? How, exactly, has she helped women since she’s set up an office in the WH??
Personally, I think she’s just like her dad except she’s a bit more polished and has more self control.