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Thank you for referencing that article CutePuppy. Please bear in mind that the following critique is directed at the article and not at you.

I suspected that we’d hear things like equal pay and childcare from Ivanka. While I agree with her in principle, please consider the following.

The problem with the things that Ivanka mentioned is this. The states have never delegated to the feds, expressly via the Constitution, the specific powers to address equal pay or childcare issues. This is evidenced by the 10th Amendment which the Founding States drafted to clarify that the Constitution’s silence about the issues that Ivanka mentioned means that they are automatically and uniquely state power issues, not the business of the feds.

In fact, previous generations of state sovereignty-respecting justices had clarified that Congress is prohibited from appropriating taxes for anything that it cannot justify under its constitutional Article I, Section 8-limited powers, childcare not among those powers and equal pay not a constitutionally enumerated right.

“Congress is not empowered to tax for those purposes which are within the exclusive province of the States.” —Justice John Marshall, Gibbons v. Ogden, 1824.
”State inspection laws, health laws, and laws for regulating the internal commerce of a State, and those which respect turnpike roads, ferries, &c. are not within the power granted to Congress [emphases added].” —Gibbons v. Ogden, 1824.
”From the accepted doctrine that the United States is a government of delegated powers, it follows that those not expressly granted, or reasonably to be implied from such as are conferred, are reserved to the states, or to the people. To forestall any suggestion to the contrary, the Tenth Amendment was adopted. The same proposition, otherwise stated, is that powers not granted are prohibited [emphasis added].” —United States v. Butler, 1936.

Trump and Ivanka need to work with the state governments to win such things for women.

Alternatively, Mr. Trump and Ivanka can work with state and federal lawmakers to propose appropriate amendments to the Constitution for these issues to the states, not that the states are obligated to ratify such amendments.

Regarding equal pay, note that Jesus taught in Matthew 20:1-16, particularly verse 15, that a person, an employer in this Bible example, can do what they want with their money. We don’t need corrupt lawmakers trying to win votes by telling people how to spend their money.