Name: Broad Strokes for February 17, 2017: Ivanka Trump's Oval Office Photo-Op
Uploaded: 2017-02-16
Duration: 4 min 11 s
Description: This week we're all about Ivanka Trump's photo op, the newly-political twitter feeds of Chelsea and Hillary Clinton, and Tiffany Dufu's new book.

[ MUSIC ] Welcome to Broad Strokes. Fortune's show were we talk about the news that matters to women. So on Monday, this week, Donald Trump met with Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau at the Whitehouse. And on the agenda Women's issues. So they gathered a bunch of different CEO's both from Canada and the US, as well as Ivanka Trump, who was apparently one of the masterminds behind this gathering. Yeah. I mean, it was really interesting for me to see Ivanka at the table. I mean, this is a women who has absolutely no official role in the White House, and yet here she is She also posted a picture of herself on social media in the President's chair, and this caused a lot of controversy on social media. Yeah, I mean, it was a weird move really, considering all the criticism that the administration has gotten about nepotism. Obviously Ivanka Trump's husband has an official role in the White House. So, you have to think that they knew they were going to get some push back on that. Yeah, I mean it's also weird, considering that it doesn't seem ike the Trump administration cares too much about nepotism charges , that she's not getting an official role. Yeah, I mean, I'm happy that she's having these dinners. I'm happy that these meetings are happening. It's great to see women's economic issues out there, something is being discussed at the White House. But the real test is can he put legislation out there? Can he put policy out there? And actually change something. So a new book came out this week by Tiffany Dufu called Drop the Ball. And it's basically the complement to Sheryl Sandberg's Lean In. So whereas Sandberg is saying lean in at the office, Dufu is saying lean out at home, let men pick up more of the slack. Do more child care Unpaid laborer, things like that. Yeah, I mean, part of this really resonated for me, for sure I do the dishes more in our house. But on the other hand, again, it puts a lot of the onus on women. And I'd love to see someone write a book Saying, hey men! Here's what you need to do. So it makes me wonder. We've had so many of these big, feminist call to actions. Do we really need these books anymore? Yeah, I mean, it's true that we've had a lot of these books. But a lot of them have been, frankly, written by rich, white women. And so, what's really nice about this one is that Tiffany Dufu is African- American. I feel like she Her book might speak to a broader audience than Sandberg's book, or than Sallie Krawcheck new book 'Own It', which really kind of come at these issues from a very privileged point of view. Yeah, I mean we'll have to see if this resonates more for our wider variety of But what was really resonating from me this week are the Clinton women's Twitter feeds. So Chelsea Clinton, usually her tweets are pretty innocuous. She tweets a lot about women's issues, children's issues, the environment. But ever since the Trump immigration ban hurt feeders transformed and just kind of really political, really pointed. Meanwhile, her mother's feed has basically just been trolling Donald Trump, pointing out problems in his adminstration. Yeah. I mean it's been super entertaining for me to see Clinton getting into a Twitter war with Kellyanne Conway. But aside from being super entertaining, I think the clinging women [ UNKNOWN ] might be pointing to either or both of them potentially running for office. There is actually a political story this week about Hillary Clinton, and how all signs, basically, pointing to her running again in 2020. Now, The writer cites no additional new information, but more things like this Twitter feed, the fact that she's writing a new book, the fact that she has distanced herself from the Clinton Global Initiative, all things that she would not have to do if she weren't running for office. But it's not just Hillary, so these rumors are also out there about Chelsea Saying that she might be considering a congressional run in New York. She denied it, but at the same time, she's also talked about the interest in running for political office at some point in her career. So one thing I think we know is that the Clinton name is not going to disappear from political headlines anytime soon. Unfortunately, that's all the time we have this week Broad Strokes. Come back next Friday for another episode on Fortune. com [ MUSIC ] [ BLANK_AUDIO ]

This week we're all about Ivanka Trump's photo op, the newly-political twitter feeds of Chelsea and Hillary Clinton, and Tiffany Dufu's new book.