TRUMP FAMILY/IVANKA/WOMEN: “Ivanka Trump has a suggestion for India to get its economy booming again — get more women to work.
Speaking at the Global Entrepreneurship Summit in the southern Indian city of Hyderabad, President Trump’s daughter and senior adviser said increasing the number of women in the workforce could boost growth…
It’s a problem India is all too familiar with. Official figures for 2012, the latest available, show that less than a third of India’s women over the age of 15 were working or actively looking for work.
The World Bank said in May that an increase of just six percentage points in the proportion of women working would lead to a dramatic increase in growth in India’s $2.4 trillion economy.
It’s the kind of shot in the arm India sorely needs. Economic growth slumped to 5.7% in the most recent quarter, its lowest since Prime Minister Narendra Modi came to power in 2014, and far short of the 7% rate achieved in the final months of last year…
Ivanka Trump’s championing of women has attracted criticism, with some accusing her of not following words with actions, and staying silent while her father’s administration has undermined their rights.”
-Rishi Iyengar, “Ivanka Trump says women can power India’s economy,” CNN Money, CNN.com, Nov. 29, 2017 03:10am