GOP Presidential Candidate Carly Fiorina Says Paid Maternity Leave Should Not

The federal Family and Medical Leave Act of 1993 provides 12 weeks of leave for the birth of a child and other needs, but it does not require wage compensation. She’s very impressive and her performance in the first debate underscored that.

Fiorina is an unorthodox presidential candidate with an interesting life story.

She added, “Not having mandated leave for employers is a recipe for pushing women out of the workplace”. Fiorina said on CNN’s “State of the Union” on Sunday.

CARLY FIORINA: Because it’s true. “But holy cow!” He joined the consensus, calling her the victor of the early debate last night.

The former head of Hewlett-Packard made the most routine goof anyone makes with one of its products: She left an important document on the printer. “She is still defending Planned Parenthood”. I’ll suggest a part of that was his celebrity. For about an hour after that debate, the big story was Fiorina winning what was sometimes called the undercard session. “By a lot”, gushed the Washington Post’s Chris Cillizza.

Fiorina noted that while she was at Hewlett Packard, the company offered paid maternity and paternity leave.

Her stance is an ideological one that attempts to limit the government’s control over business.

Nearly immediately, Fiorina became a polarizing figure at HP and in the technology industry more generally. “We tripled the rate of innovation to 11 patents a day and went from lagging behind to leading in every product category”.

And Fiorina wasted no time in shaking up HP.

Policies like the one in Afghanistan, while stronger than that in the U.S., still leave mothers vulnerable to job discrimination, because employers may be reluctant to hire or promote pregnant workers to avoid paying the direct and indirect costs linked to their leave, the ILO pointed out. Unsurprisingly, there’s a huge disparity among the rich and the poor. Combining the two companies did prove hard and expensive, just as critics predicted.

And on the stage, Fiorina kept up her attack. “And yep, I was fired during a boardroom brawl”. H-P stock price fell about $15 a share in 2002. Meg Whitman, former CEO of eBay, ran for governor. Barbara Boxer (D-CA). She ran in a good year for Republicans – it was the year a Tea Party wave gave Republicans control of the House – but she was running in heavily Democratic California against a popular incumbent.

But as the only female GOP candidate – a fact the only female contender on the Democratic side conveniently forgot during a recent speech – Fiorina is a tremendous asset to the field, and not simply because she is a woman.

Fiorina’s campaign featured what was probably the strangest and most baffling ad of the 2010 election cycle.

But Fiorina has hopes that will change, and Erick Erickson, the conservative radio commentator who hosts the RedState Gathering, warned against dismissing her. He added a moment later, “I don’t trust President Obama with our records”.

“I think I got asked a question about the Chamber of Commerce, and I answered a question about the Department of Commerce, which I had on my brain because I was asked about the Department of Commerce earlier today”, she said.

Candidates with lower name recognition might expect to get more Google searches (viewers know who the others are) but the data echoed with what many pundits agreed was surprisingly accomplished oratory from someone with such limited experience of frontline politics.