Women Who Work (book)
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| author = Ivanka Trump
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| genre = Self-help
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| pub_date = May 2, 2017
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| pages = 243
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| isbn = 978-0-7352-1132-2
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Women Who Work is a 2017 book by Ivanka Trump.{{cite news |last=Senior |first=Jennifer |date=May 2, 2017 |title=Having Trouble Having It All? Ivanka Alone Can Fix It |url=https://www.nytimes.com/2017/05/02/books/review-ivanka-trump-women-who-work.html |newspaper=The New York Times |accessdate=May 3, 2017}} 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.
Reception
The book received mixed reviews from critics.{{cite news|url=https://www.bbc.com/news/world-us-canada-39774674 |title=Ivanka Trump's book: The reviews are in... |first=Katie |last=Shepherd |publisher=BBC |accessdate=May 3, 2016|date=May 2, 2017}}{{cite news |last=Loughrey |first=Clarisse |date=May 5, 2017 |title=Ivanka Trump's book: All the most scathing reviews of Women who Work |url=https://www.independent.co.uk/arts-entertainment/books/news/ivanka-trump-new-book-women-who-work-review-round-up-hillary-clinton-a7719136.html |work=The Independent |location=London, United Kingdom |access-date=May 7, 2017 }}{{cite news|url=https://www.theatlantic.com/entertainment/archive/2017/05/the-borrowed-words-of-ivanka-trump/525621/ |title=The Borrowed Words of Ivanka Trump |first=Megan |last=Garber|accessdate=May 3, 2016 |newspaper=The Atlantic |date=May 5, 2017}} 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. 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.{{cite news|url=https://www.washingtonpost.com/business/in-new-book-ivanka-trump-gets-serious-about-women-at-work/2017/05/02/80d6ae88-2f0e-11e7-a335-fa0ae1940305_story.html |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20170502110057/https://www.washingtonpost.com/business/in-new-book-ivanka-trump-gets-serious-about-women-at-work/2017/05/02/80d6ae88-2f0e-11e7-a335-fa0ae1940305_story.html |url-status=dead |archive-date=May 2, 2017 |title=In new book, Ivanka Trump gets serious about women at work |newspaper=The Washington Post |first=Catherine |last=Lucey|accessdate=May 3, 2016 |date=May 2, 2017}} 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".{{Cite web |url=https://www.npr.org/2017/05/03/526580960/many-working-women-wont-see-themselves-in-women-who-work |title=Many Working Women Won't See Themselves In 'Women Who Work' |author=Quinn, Annalisa |date=May 3, 2017 |website=NPR.org |archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20180104043820/https://www.npr.org/2017/05/03/526580960/many-working-women-wont-see-themselves-in-women-who-work |archivedate=January 4, 2018 |url-status=live }}