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Author | Ivanka Trump |
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Language | English |
Genre | Self-help |
Publisher | Portfolio |
Publication date | May 2, 2017 |
Publication place | United States |
Pages | 243 |
ISBN | 978-0-7352-1132-2 |
Women Who Work is a 2017 book by Ivanka Trump. [1] A self-help book intended to help women achieve self-actualization, it deals with work–life balance among other topics. It includes guest essays, and several businesspeople, political figures, and self-help authors are quoted. [1]
The book received mixed reviews from critics. [2] [3] [4] Jennifer Senior, writing for The New York Times, said that while the book's intended audience is initially presumed to be a wide range of women, class bias emerges later in the book. For example, Trump classifies grocery shopping as a task that is neither urgent nor important, and cites not being able to treat herself to a massage as an indicator of how busy she was during her father's 2016 presidential campaign, thus revealing herself to be out of touch with working-class women. [1] In the Associated Press, however, Catherine Lucey said that the book shows Trump has become a more serious writer since her previous self-help book, the 2009 The Trump Card. [5] Less charitably, NPR book reviewer Annalisa Quinn described the writing as "a sea of blandities", and that "reading it feels like eating scented cotton balls". [6]
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Author | Ivanka Trump |
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Language | English |
Genre | Self-help |
Publisher | Portfolio |
Publication date | May 2, 2017 |
Publication place | United States |
Pages | 243 |
ISBN | 978-0-7352-1132-2 |
Women Who Work is a 2017 book by Ivanka Trump. [1] A self-help book intended to help women achieve self-actualization, it deals with work–life balance among other topics. It includes guest essays, and several businesspeople, political figures, and self-help authors are quoted. [1]
The book received mixed reviews from critics. [2] [3] [4] Jennifer Senior, writing for The New York Times, said that while the book's intended audience is initially presumed to be a wide range of women, class bias emerges later in the book. For example, Trump classifies grocery shopping as a task that is neither urgent nor important, and cites not being able to treat herself to a massage as an indicator of how busy she was during her father's 2016 presidential campaign, thus revealing herself to be out of touch with working-class women. [1] In the Associated Press, however, Catherine Lucey said that the book shows Trump has become a more serious writer since her previous self-help book, the 2009 The Trump Card. [5] Less charitably, NPR book reviewer Annalisa Quinn described the writing as "a sea of blandities", and that "reading it feels like eating scented cotton balls". [6]