April 7 – Mobilizing for “Equal Pay Day”; India Poised to Elect a Right Wing Nationalist; Hungary Re-elects the Right

Full Program

Part 1

We begin with the president about to sign two executive orders on equal pay and the Senate voting on the Paycheck Fairness Act on Tuesday which is being deemed “Equal Pay Day” because it represent how many days woman have to work into 2014 to catch up with men, we discuss the gender wage gap with Heidi Hartmann. She is the President of the Washington-based Institute for Women’s Policy Research and a Research Professor at the George Washington University and the author of “Still a Man’s Labor Market: The Long-Time Earnings Gap” and “Equal Pay for Working Families; and Survival at the Bottom”.

Part 2

Then, with 814 million people eligible to vote in elections underway in India, we examine the possibility of Narendra Modi, a right-wing nationalist becoming the leader of the world’s largest democracy. Dr. Sumit Ganguly the Chair of Indian Cultures and Civilizations at Indiana University in Bloomington joins us to discuss the appeal of the BJP leader Modi, who in an American context could be compared to Ted Cruz or Sarah Palin, and the electorate’s disgust with the corruption-plagued dynastic rule of the Gandhi family’s Congress Party which has dominated Indian politics since independence.  

Part 3

Then finally we speak with Charles Gati, a Senior Fellow at the Foreign Policy Institute at Johns Hopkins School of Advanced International Studies and a former senior advisor to the State Department’s Policy Planning Staff. He joins us to discuss the reelection of the right-wing nationalist party in Hungary led by Prime Minister Viktor Orban who is scornful of Western criticism and is biting the hand that is feeding him, the E.U., while cozying up to Vladimir Putin. We look into Orban’s electoral victory and the party even further to his right Jobbik, which got one in five Hungarian votes.