The Colorado Women’s Alliance hosted what was billed as a nonpartisan breakfast at the Downtown Sheraton Hotel Thursday, Sept. 22, featuring Ivanka Trump, daughter of Republican presidential candidate Donald Trump. About 50 Colorado women attended the breakfast; some were not Trump supporters but were willing to listen. Half a dozen television news crews covered the event.

The 34-year-old Wharton Business School graduate, former fashion model and author of two books, has three children, a 5-month-old, an almost 3-year-old and 5- year-old. She said that the dynamic in her household was “about the only thing more high-energy, complicated and chaotic than a presidential campaign.”

Ivanka Trump also owns a flourishing apparel company and has taken over the management of the multifaceted Trump organization, with her siblings Donald Jr. and Eric, while her father is “doing something much more important and much more valuable on behalf of all Americans across the country.”

Speaking about the importance of balancing family and business, Ivanka Trump added that her father understands the pressures of American working women, because he has employed tens of thousands of them, but he also respects the stay at home moms. Knowing her audience, she noted she really hates the term “working women” because you never hear the term “working man.”

“It is incredibly disrespectful to the many women in their homes and raising their families that are working raising their families,” she said.

Promoting her father’s “innovative and exciting” child care reforms is a very important issue for her, she said. “Stay at home motherhood represents a greater inequality than gender inequality does. A married woman only makes 81 cents for a man’s dollar, whereas a single woman makes 94 cents for a man’s dollar.” She asserted that there are a lot of things that could be changed in the tax code to benefit women who work, like the dependent pretax savings accounts.

When asked by CU Regent Sue Sharkey what she would say to women voters about “women’s issues” to convince them to have a more favorable opinion of her father, Trump replied, “At the end of the day I have a little bit of trouble, just like (with the term) ‘working woman,’ calling issues ‘women’s issues.’ I think all issues are ‘women’s issues’ and first and foremost we want great jobs. We want great jobs, we want economic prosperity for this country, for all Americans. And, obviously, a rising tide lifts all ships. And, my father is most capable of providing exactly that – leadership from the top. Having built so many businesses, having employed so many people, understanding the realities of the workforce at every level. My father will be an unbelievable jobs president. So to any American, women, who are questioning what he will do for this county, really what I would say first and foremost, think about jobs; jobs for yourself and jobs for your children and your grandchildren, which is so key to the vitality of this country.”

After Trump wrapped up her 15-minute presentation, Debbie Brown of the Colorado Women’s Alliance presented her with a Denver Broncos gift, beaming “We love our Denver Broncos in Colorado, we are sure that you’re a Broncos fan and want your children to be Bronco Fans.”