--- title: Donald Trump Says He Hopes Ivanka Would Quit Her Job If Sexually Harassed at Work description: Donald Trump said he hoped his daughter Ivanka would quit her job if she were sexually harassed. authors: - name: Kerry Close url: https://money.com/author/kerry-close/ at_money_since: 2016 articles: 182 covers: - Economy and Politics - Banking - Business - Career Advice - Credit Cards - Education - Housing - Identity Theft - Insurance - Investing - Lifestyle - Loans - Mortgages - Personal Finance - Retirement - Shopping - Taxes - Technology social: - https://x.com/kerryclose former_staff: true published: '2016-08-02T13:46:44.000Z' modified: '2024-04-17T03:08:52.000Z' section: Economy and Politics tags: - Donald Trump - pubdesk - sexual harassment - Workplace word_count: 451 canonical: https://money.com/donald-trump-ivanka-sexual-harassment/ type: Article source: structured-blocks --- > **Disclosure:** We research all brands listed and may earn a fee from our partners. Research and financial considerations may influence how brands are displayed. Not all brands are included. [Learn more](https://money.com/page/disclaimer/). ![Republican National Convention: Day Four](https://img.money.com/2016/08/gettyimages-578665884.jpg) *Donald Trump said he hopes his daughter Ivanka would leave her job if she were ever the victim of sexual harassment.* If you're a woman who has ever been sexually harassed at work, Donald Trump has some advice for you: Quit your job. In an [interview with *USA Today*](http://www.usatoday.com/story/opinion/2016/08/01/ailes-trump-sexual-harassment-fox-news-women-gretchen-kelly-greta-news-column/87915454/), Trump said that if his eldest daughter Ivanka were ever treated in such a way, he "would like to think she would find another career or find another company." The line of questioning came in response to a recent lawsuit from former Fox News anchor Gretchen Carlson that [now-former company CEO Roger Ailes](https://money.com/fox-news-roger-ailes-sexual-harassment-women-speak-out/?iid=sr-link2) had sexually harassed her. Other women have also claimed that Ailes harassed them as well. As the allegations against Ailes stacked up -- including back-up from another prominent female anchor, Megyn Kelly -- Trump told NBC's Chuck Todd last month that, "Some of the women that are complaining, I know how much he's helped them ... all of a sudden, they're saying these horrible things about him." Ivanka's brother Eric defended his father's comments in an interview with Charlie Rose on [CBS This Morning](http://www.cbsnews.com/videos/eric-trump-on-fathers-feud-with-fallen-soldiers-parents/?ftag=CNM-00-10aab7e&linkId=27190583), saying, > I think what he’s saying is, Ivanka is a strong, powerful woman, she wouldn’t allow herself to be objected to it, and by the way, you should take it up with Human Resources, and I think she would as a strong person, at the same time, I don’t think she would allow herself to be subjected to that. I think that’s a point he was making, and I think he did so well. Of course, it's probably not possible for most women to be able to quit their jobs without a back-up plan. What's more, some women [might not be legally be able to do so](https://money.com/fox-news-roger-ailes-sexual-harassment-women-speak-out/?iid=sr-link2) if they're bound by a contract that forbids them to talk to competitors. And perhaps most strikingly, Trump ignores the basic issue of fairness at play: Why should a woman be forced to upend her professional life while her harasser gets off scot-free? ***Read More*: [What Constitutes Sexual Harassment in the Workplace?](https://money.com/what-constitutes-sexual-harassment-in-the-workplace/?iid=sr-link1)** Jane Hall, a journalism professor at American University, pointed out in a [New York *Times* op-ed](http://www.nytimes.com/2016/07/22/opinion/the-world-roger-ailes-created.html) in June that even women sometimes can misunderstand the intricacies of sexual harassment. "I suspect that there is a connection between the unspoken requirement for many women on Fox News, and elsewhere on television, to be leggy *and* beautiful *and s*mart — and the bullying, misogynist political culture in which we find ourselves today," she wrote. Of course, however "beautiful" or "leggy" a woman's appearance, she's not responsible for sexual harassment. And there's [much more you can do](https://money.com/sexual-harassment-work/) other than quitting your job if you find yourself the victim of sexual harassment at work, like documenting the behavior, filing a complaint and even seeking outside counsel like that of a lawyer. ```json { "@context": "https://schema.org", "@graph": [ { "@type": "BreadcrumbList", "@id": "https://money.com/donald-trump-ivanka-sexual-harassment/#breadcrumb", "itemListElement": [ { "@type": "ListItem", "position": 1, "name": "Home", "item": "https://money.com" }, { "@type": "ListItem", "position": 2, "name": "Economy and Politics", "item": "https://money.com/economy-and-politics/" }, { "@type": "ListItem", "position": 3, "name": "Politics", "item": "https://money.com/politics/" }, { "@type": "ListItem", "position": 4, "name": "Donald Trump Says He Hopes Ivanka Would Quit Her Job If Sexually Harassed at Work" } ] }, { "@type": "WebSite", "@id": "https://money.com/#website", "url": "https://money.com", "name": "Money", "publisher": { "@id": "https://money.com/#organization" } }, { "@type": "WebPage", "@id": "https://money.com/donald-trump-ivanka-sexual-harassment/#webpage", "url": "https://money.com/donald-trump-ivanka-sexual-harassment/", "name": "Donald Trump Says He Hopes Ivanka Would Quit Her Job If Sexually Harassed at Work", "isPartOf": { "@id": "https://money.com/#website" }, "datePublished": "2016-08-02T13:46:44.000Z", "mainEntity": { "@id": "https://money.com/donald-trump-ivanka-sexual-harassment/" }, "inLanguage": "en-US", "breadcrumb": { "@id": "https://money.com/donald-trump-ivanka-sexual-harassment/#breadcrumb" }, "dateModified": "2024-04-17T03:08:52.000Z" }, { "@type": "Article", "headline": "Donald Trump Says He Hopes Ivanka Would Quit Her Job If Sexually Harassed at Work", "articleSection": "Economy and Politics", "image": [ { "@type": "ImageObject", "url": "https://img.money.com/2016/08/gettyimages-578665884.jpg", "width": 3713, "height": 2572, "caption": "Republican National Convention: Day Four" } ], "author": [ { "@type": "Person", "name": "Kerry Close", "url": "https://money.com/author/kerry-close/", "@id": "https://money.com/author/kerry-close/#author", "sameAs": [ "https://x.com/kerryclose" ] } ], "publisher": "https://money.com/#organization", "datePublished": "2016-08-02T13:46:44.000Z", "description": "Donald Trump said he hoped his daughter Ivanka would quit her job if she were sexually harassed.", "abstract": "Donald Trump said he hoped his daughter Ivanka would quit her job if she were sexually harassed.", "@id": "https://money.com/donald-trump-ivanka-sexual-harassment/", "inLanguage": "en-US", "dateModified": "2024-04-17T03:08:52.000Z", "wordCount": 451, "keywords": [ "Donald Trump", "pubdesk", "sexual harassment", "Workplace" ], "about": [ { "@type": "Thing", "name": "Political economy", "sameAs": [ "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Political_economy" ] }, { "@type": "Thing", "name": "Politics", "sameAs": [ "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Politics" ] } ] } ] } ```