--- title: Time 100: Cecile Richards Says Women Look to Ivanka Trump description: Planned Parenthood president Cecile Richards said women are looking to Ivanka Trump when it comes to progress on women's issues from the White House. canonical: https://time.com/4752468/cecile-richards-time-100-gala-ivanka-trump/ author: Katie Reilly article:opinion: false article:content_tier: free article:published_time: 2017-04-26T00:06:44.000Z article:modified_time: 2026-07-21T07:15:17.109Z article:section: Politics og:title: Planned Parenthood’s Cecile Richards on Ivanka Trump: 'Women are Waiting to See a Sign From This White House' og:description: "She apparently has the portfolio for all women's issues in the White House" og:url: https://time.com/4752468/cecile-richards-time-100-gala-ivanka-trump/ og:site_name: TIME og:image: https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/bltea3a7d866768feee/6988ca9c0b72e340af6ed84d/cecile-richards-time-100-2017.jpg?branch=production&width=3840&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=16:9 og:image:width: 1200 og:image:height: 675 og:image:alt: 2017 TIME 100 Gala og:type: article twitter:card: summary_large_image twitter:title: Planned Parenthood’s Cecile Richards on Ivanka Trump: 'Women are Waiting to See a Sign From This White House' twitter:description: "She apparently has the portfolio for all women's issues in the White House" twitter:image: https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/bltea3a7d866768feee/6988ca9c0b72e340af6ed84d/cecile-richards-time-100-2017.jpg?branch=production&width=3840&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=16:9 ---  # Planned Parenthood’s Cecile Richards on Ivanka Trump: 'Women are Waiting to See a Sign From This White House'  by [Katie Reilly](https://time.com/author/katie-reilly/)  ## Katie Reilly Apr 26, 2017 12:06 AM UTC  Cecile Richards attend the 2017 TIME 100 Gala at Jazz at Lincoln Center on April 25, 2017 in New York City. Cecile Richards attend the 2017 TIME 100 Gala at Jazz at Lincoln Center on April 25, 2017 in New York City.Patrick McMullan—Getty Images  by [Katie Reilly](https://time.com/author/katie-reilly/)  ## Katie Reilly Apr 26, 2017 12:06 AM UTC Planned Parenthood president [Cecile Richards](http://time.com/4531357/planned-parenthood-cecile-richards-100-year-anniversary/) said women are looking to [Ivanka Trump](http://time.com/4753986/ivanka-trump-womens-20-summit-berlin-germany-read-transcript/) when it comes to progress on women’s issues from the White House. “She apparently has the portfolio for all women’s issues in the White House,” Richards said at the TIME 100 Gala on Tuesday night. “That’s a huge responsibility, and women are waiting to see a sign from this White House that they’re on our side.” Nevertheless, Richards said: “I’m very hopeful that we see something dramatically different than we’ve seen these first 100 days. That’s what we’re working on.” On Tuesday, Trump said her father, President Donald Trump, is a “tremendous champion” for women’s rights during a [panel on female entrepreneurship](http://time.com/4753986/ivanka-trump-womens-20-summit-berlin-germany-read-transcript/) in Berlin, Germany, during which [she was booed](http://time.com/4754369/ivanka-trump-boo-berlin-angela-merkel/). Trump and Richards had a [“cordial and informative meeting” in January](http://motto.time.com/4728826/ivanka-trump-planned-parenthood-meeting/) before her father was inaugurated. “The purpose of the meeting, from Planned Parenthood’s perspective, was to make sure that Ivanka Trump fully understood the important role Planned Parenthood plays in providing health care to millions of people and why it would be a disastrous idea to block people from accessing care at Planned Parenthood,” a statement from Planned Parenthood said at the time. President Trump [recently signed legislation](http://time.com/4739603/trump-states-planned-parenthood-funding/) that lets states deny federal family planning money to Planned Parenthood and other abortion providers. ```json [{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"NewsArticle","@id":"https://time.com/4752468/cecile-richards-time-100-gala-ivanka-trump/","mainEntityOfPage":{"@type":"WebPage","@id":"https://time.com/4752468/cecile-richards-time-100-gala-ivanka-trump/"},"headline":"Planned Parenthood’s Cecile Richards on Ivanka Trump: 'Women are Waiting to See a Sign From This White House'","datePublished":"2017-04-26T00:06:44.000Z","dateModified":"2026-07-21T07:15:17.109Z","description":"\"She apparently has the portfolio for all women's issues in the White House\"","url":"https://time.com/4752468/cecile-richards-time-100-gala-ivanka-trump/","keywords":["TIME 100","TIME 100","onetime"],"thumbnailUrl":"https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/bltea3a7d866768feee/6988ca9c0b72e340af6ed84d/cecile-richards-time-100-2017.jpg?branch=production&width=1200&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=1200:675&height=675","author":[{"@type":"Person","name":"Katie Reilly","jobTitle":null,"url":"https://time.com/author/katie-reilly/"}],"articleSection":"Politics","image":[{"@type":"ImageObject","url":"https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/bltea3a7d866768feee/6988ca9c0b72e340af6ed84d/cecile-richards-time-100-2017.jpg?branch=production&width=1200&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=1200:675&height=675","width":1200,"height":675,"headline":"2017 TIME 100 Gala","caption":"2017 TIME 100 Gala","creditText":"Patrick McMullan—Getty Images","representativeOfPage":true}],"publisher":{"@type":"Organization","name":"Time","url":"https://time.com/","logo":{"@type":"ImageObject","url":"https://time.com/images/logo.png","width":528,"height":156},"foundingDate":"March 3, 1923","sameAs":["https://www.facebook.com/time","https://www.instagram.com/time/?hl=en","https://twitter.com/time","https://www.pinterest.com/timemagazine"]}},{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"BreadcrumbList","itemListElement":[{"@type":"ListItem","position":1,"item":{"@id":"/section/politics/","name":"Politics"}},{"@type":"ListItem","position":2,"item":{"@id":"/tag/time-100/","name":"TIME 100"}},{"@type":"ListItem","position":3,"item":{"@id":"https://time.com/4752468/cecile-richards-time-100-gala-ivanka-trump/","name":"Planned Parenthood’s Cecile Richards on Ivanka Trump: 'Women are Waiting to See a Sign From This White House'"}}]}] ```