Ivanka Trump on paid leave: 'It's an investment on America's working families'

Ivanka Trump defended her paid leave stance this week in an op-ed published by the Wall Street Journal.

"The policy outlined in the administration’s recent budget proposal emphasizes the need for mothers and fathers to have access to paid leave to encourage both parents to share parenting responsibilities and to strive toward minimizing hiring biases," Trump wrote in the July 4 op-ed. "While this policy will benefit all working parents, it will have an especially positive effect for women, who are far more likely than men to leave the workforce to provide unpaid care for a child."

The policy in question would grant mothers and fathers six weeks of paid leave after the birth or adoption of a child. It has been criticized by people on both sides of the aisle, with conservatives calling it an entitlement and progressives saying it doesn't go far enough.

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In the op-ed, she said, "Providing a national guaranteed paid-leave program—with a reasonable time limit and benefit cap—isn’t an entitlement, it’s an investment in America’s working families."

In May, the Wall Street Journal took issue with the policy, contending it was "bad policy and worse politics."

Trump, in her July 4 op-ed, argued, "We agree wholeheartedly that government benefits should not be a substitute for private-sector investment. We see a national paid-leave benefit as the necessary floor from which private sector companies and state governments can build."