--- title: Ivanka Trump: Donald Trump Not Sexist Because He Hired Her description: "My father has 40 years of history of employing women," Ivanka Trump said of father Donald Trump in a new interview. canonical: https://time.com/4481928/donald-trump-ivanka-sexist/ author: Sarah Begley article:opinion: false article:content_tier: free article:published_time: 2016-09-07T14:36:09.000Z article:modified_time: 2026-04-13T09:03:18.724Z og:title: Ivanka Trump Says Donald Trump Is Not Sexist Because He Hired Her og:description: "My father has 40 years of history of employing women" og:url: https://time.com/4481928/donald-trump-ivanka-sexist/ og:site_name: TIME og:image: https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/blt441baf20e590d782/6988a50c97cdffffc06adb5c/ivanka.jpeg?branch=production&width=3840&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=16:9 og:image:width: 1200 og:image:height: 675 og:image:alt: Donald Trump Accepts the Republican Presidential Nomination og:type: article twitter:card: summary_large_image twitter:title: Ivanka Trump Says Donald Trump Is Not Sexist Because He Hired Her twitter:description: "My father has 40 years of history of employing women" twitter:image: https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/blt441baf20e590d782/6988a50c97cdffffc06adb5c/ivanka.jpeg?branch=production&width=3840&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=16:9 ---  # Ivanka Trump Says Donald Trump Is Not Sexist Because He Hired Her by [Sarah Begley](https://time.com/author/sarah-begley/) ## Sarah Begley Sep 7, 2016 2:36 PM UTC  Ivanka Trump, daughter of Donald Trump, speaks about how her father is the best choice for President during the 2016 Republican National Convention in Cleveland, Ohio, USA on July 21, 2016. Ivanka Trump, daughter of Donald Trump, speaks about how her father is the best choice for President during the 2016 Republican National Convention in Cleveland, Ohio, USA on July 21, 2016.Anadolu Agency—Getty Images by [Sarah Begley](https://time.com/author/sarah-begley/) ## Sarah Begley Sep 7, 2016 2:36 PM UTC [Donald Trump](http://time.com/4481911/donald-trump-united-nations-speech/) has earned plenty of feminist critics for his remarks about women—from calling a lawyer about to pump breastmilk “disgusting” to speculating that he would perhaps date Ivanka if she were not his daughter. But [Ivanka](http://motto.time.com/4457368/ivanka-trump-lady-grey-jewelry/) says it’s not possible that her father is sexist, because he gave her a leadership role in his company. “He’s absolutely not a sexist,” she said in an interview with [CNN](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zo8xa3M2JMQ). “There’s no way I could be the person I am today if my father was a sexist. I would not be one of his senior-most executives and I would not be working shoulder to shoulder with my brothers. I would be working for my brothers if at all. I think actions ultimately speak louder than words. My father has 40 years of history of employing women.” Critics may note that it’s possible to respect your daughter without showing respect or understanding for women in general, and men can often treat their own daughters as an exception to the rule. As Jill Filipovic put it in the [New York _Times_](http://www.nytimes.com/2016/07/21/opinion/campaign-stops/why-men-want-to-marry-melanias-and-raise-ivankas.html), some men want to “marry Melanias and raise Ivankas.” ```json [{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"NewsArticle","@id":"https://time.com/4481928/donald-trump-ivanka-sexist/","mainEntityOfPage":{"@type":"WebPage","@id":"https://time.com/4481928/donald-trump-ivanka-sexist/"},"headline":"Ivanka Trump Says Donald Trump Is Not Sexist Because He Hired Her","datePublished":"2016-09-07T14:36:09.000Z","dateModified":"2026-04-13T09:03:18.724Z","description":"\"My father has 40 years of history of employing women\"","url":"https://time.com/4481928/donald-trump-ivanka-sexist/","keywords":["motto","politics"],"thumbnailUrl":"https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/blt441baf20e590d782/6988a50c97cdffffc06adb5c/ivanka.jpeg?branch=production&width=1200&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=1200:675&height=675","author":[{"@type":"Person","name":"Sarah Begley","jobTitle":null,"url":"https://time.com/author/sarah-begley/"}],"articleSection":"","image":[{"@type":"ImageObject","url":"https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/blt441baf20e590d782/6988a50c97cdffffc06adb5c/ivanka.jpeg?branch=production&width=1200&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=1200:675&height=675","width":1200,"height":675,"headline":"Donald Trump Accepts the Republican Presidential Nomination","caption":"Donald Trump Accepts the Republican Presidential Nomination","creditText":"Anadolu Agency—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":"/tag/motto/","name":"motto"}},{"@type":"ListItem","position":2,"item":{"@id":"https://time.com/4481928/donald-trump-ivanka-sexist/","name":"Ivanka Trump Says Donald Trump Is Not Sexist Because He Hired Her"}}]}] ```