Former Exec at Ivanka Trump's Company Says She Had to Fight for Maternity Leave
The former Chief Marketing Officer at Ivanka Trump’s clothing company says there was no maternity leave policy in place when she got there, and that employees had to fight to get Trump to agree to eight weeks paid leave. Marissa Velez Kraxberger wrote on Facebook that after seeing a recent ad where Trump and her root vegetable father tout his proposed maternity leave plan, “I felt like I was going to be ill.”
Ivanka Trump is very proud of something called #WomenWhoWork, which celebrates women who have jobs. She has a book coming out next year about the subject, promising “highly tactical, solution-oriented content” for women in the office.
In her Facebook note, Kraxberger writes that she took the job with Trump when she was two months pregnant, and that the women at the company had to argue at length for that eight weeks. The issue, it sounds like, is that Ivanka herself didn’t need maternity leave, and so seemed not to understand why other people might:
When I first interviewed with Ivanka I was 2 months pregnant, she called to offer me a job, which I was at the time very excited about, and when I asked about maternity leave she said she would have to think about it, that at Trump they don’t offer maternity leave and that she went back to work just a week after having her first child. I somehow was dumb enough to accept the job after agreeing upon having the discussion further down the road about how we would handle the time after my baby was born. Our team—the ones who created#WomenWhoWork and the ones who the hashtag really stood for—fought long and hard to get her to finally agree to 8 weeks paid maternity leave.
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