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US President Donald Trump’s administration has claimed that he thinks women are equal in spite of widespread allegations of misogyny and having rolled back women’s rights. Kellyanne Conway is the presidential counselor who has been one of Trump’s most trusted advisers and spokespersons. She joined his campaign in the summer of 2016. Conway said, “He had elevated women to senior positions in business and in government”. She admired the courageous warriors who pressed for change. Conway said, “This has been a century worth celebrating, but also a reminder that our democracy is young and fragile. A woman in a leadership role still can seem novel”. She also admired the President for promoting women.

Conway added, “He confides in and consults us, respects our opinions, and insists that we are on equal footing with the men. President Trump helped me shatter a barrier in the world of politics by empowering me to manage his campaign to its successful conclusion”. Her comments came just days after she announced that she would be leaving the White House at the end of the month, in order to spend more time with her family. Point to be noted that her husband is a lawyer and outspoken critic of the president. He is also stepping back from his role with the anti-Trump organization, the Lincoln Project. They need to spend more time with one of their children.

He has supported efforts in the US at a state level to limit access to abortion providers and gone as far as to suggest he would overturn Roe v Wade, the landmark 1973 ruling that has allowed women the right to choose. He has also supported measures opposed to ensuring equal pay in the workplace, failed to appoint women to senior positions in his cabinet. It held up federal funding for abortion providers in the US, under the Title X family planning program. A recent article in Foreign Policy was headlined Trump’s War on the Concept of Women’s Health. She said, “It comes not from strangers on social media or sanitized language in a corporate handbook. It comes from the everyday heroes who nurture us, who shape us, and who believe in us. The promise of America belongs to us all”.