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May 2nd, 2017 
Awake Goy 
Susanne Posel ,Chief Editor Occupy Corporatism | Host of Hardline Radio Show
According to internal White House documents , the Let Girls Learn program, an initiative begun under the Obama administration giving girls in developing nations opportunities to receive an education, “will cease operation immediately”.
Former First Lady Michelle Obama’s signature program will no longer be known under its current name while aspects of it will remain. The Let Girls Learn program was the responsibility of the United States Agency for International Development (USAID) and the Peace Corps.
According to the Peace Corps, they will continue “to prioritize girls’ education and empowerment programming. Girls’ education and empowerment has been a hallmark of our work over the past 56 years and we look forward to continuing those efforts with our interagency partners. We remain dedicated to the passionate work of our volunteers and staff to empower and educate girls in their communities.”
Sheila Crowley, acting director of the Peace Corps, revealed in a letter to employees that “moving forward, we will not continue to use the ‘Let Girls Learn’ brand or maintain a stand-alone program.”
The defunding of Let Girls Learn is just another example of how the Trump administration is showing little concern for women’s empowerment.
While at the W20 Summit, Ivanka Trump attempted in vain to white-wash her father’s very public apathy toward women. When asked what her role as First Daughter means, she said “she didn’t know… and was learning.”
Furthermore, as Ivanka tried to paint the image of her father championing women’s rights and empowerment in an op-ed piece published prior to the W20 Summit, individual empowerment is not the same as “deconstructing any of the underlying conditions that have led to the economic inequality faced by women today.”
What is clear in terms of Ivanka’s role in the Trump administration is that she is deployed into the public sphere to make her father look good.
Journalist Jill Filipovic points out that “there is close to zero evidence” that Melania Trump or Ivanka have ever championed women’s rights or feminism.
For all the talk about women first, Ivanka was accused by a former employee of not offering maternity leave.
Filipovic explains: “Melania and Ivanka provide good cover for Trump’s misogyny because they’re palatable, conventionally feminine women: They’re docile and poised, they don’t make demands of men, and they are above all conventionally beautiful — white and thin.”
Susanne Posel
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