They also included Ivanka Trump.

When the crowd at Glamour's Women of the Year event on Nov. 9 sat down for dinner at the Rainbow Room, a person at Ms. Trump's table asked the question that others were no doubt thinking: What would her father, who was being pilloried for remarks that struck many as misogynistic, make of her attending an event like this?

Ms. Trump quickly broke the strained silence by saying that she was her own person. Soon after, she and her friend Wendi Deng — Rupert Murdoch's ex-wife — left.

A spokesman for Ms. Trump said she went home not because she was uncomfortable, but because it was late and she had two small children. But it was an awkward collision of the two worlds she inhabits: One as a 30-something Manhattan socialite and role model to young professional women, the other as Donald J. Trump's oldest daughter, biggest champion and perhaps most valuable asset.