Trump pledged to push for "incremental, positive change" for women in the US economy and told a Berlin conference on women that she's still "rather unfamiliar" with her role as first daughter and adviser to President Donald Trump.
Trump said that one of her goals as an unofficial adviser to U.S. President Donald Trump is to promote women's issues in the White House, but drew hisses and boos from the crowd while describing her father as a "tremendous champion of supporting families".
Taking questions from a moderator on a stage that included German Chancellor Angela Merkel and International Monetary Fund Managing Director Christine Lagarde, she called President Trump "a tremendous champion of supporting families and enabling them to thrive".
Trump replied: "I've certainly heard the criticism from the media, and that's been perpetuated".
Asked about whether some of the attitudes expressed by her father might beg the question whether he really wanted to empower women, Ivanka said her personal experience, as well as that of thousands of women who had worked with or for Trump, showed he believed in women's potential.
Trump's son-in-law, Jared Kushner, was also appointed as a senior White House adviser by the president.
She said her father "encouraged me and enabled me to thrive". She then explained her life in a household in which she said held "no barriers to what I could accomplish beyond my own perseverance and tenacity".
She was asked by the panel's moderator whether the U.S. president could be considered a champion of women given his history of making sexist and misogynistic comments. President Trump meanwhile tweeted he was "proud" of Ivanka for "her leadership on these important issues".
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Trump was greeted at the facility Tuesday by Siemens CEO Joe Kaeser- one of three German business leaders who took part in a discussion event organized by Trump in Washington in March on how companies can better train workers.
News magazine Der Spiegel saw the meeting as "a summit of the two women who are supposed to moderate Donald Trump - if that is even possible".
"This is very early for me; I'm listening, I'm learning, I'm defining the ways in which I think that I'll be able to have an impact", Trump said.
Ivanka Trump is visiting a training center in Berlin run by German industrial conglomerate Siemens. Germany is proud of its vocational training system, and Trump has said she hopes to learn from German successes. Siemens says it now has some 12,000 young people worldwide, including 9,000 in Germany, in "two-track" programs that combine study with practical training.
Before heading to a formal dinner, Trump visited the German capital's memorial to the 6 million Jews murdered by the Nazis.
The summit panel's discussion had started with something of a jolt, as the moderator, journalist Miriam Meckel, asked Trump to clarify what her role was at the summit - and whether she was representing the US, her father, or her business interests.
During the 25-minute visit, Trump walked slowly through the field filled with concrete slabs. She was also flanked by a strong police guard to keep curious tourists and others at a distance.
This is certainly not the first time that Ivanka has been paraded as a sort of antidote to her father's misogyny, and though the evidence is clear that the POTUS has no regard for women he is not sexually attracted to, Ivanka continues to paint a dishonest picture of her father.
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