Robert
Drago is
Professor of Labor Studies and Women's Studies at Penn State University ,
is a Professorial Fellow at the University of Melbourne, is a co-founder and co-chair of
the Take Care Net , is past president of the College and University Work-Family Association,
and moderates the
Workfam newsgroup on the internet. He holds a Ph.D. in Economics from the University of Massachusetts at
Amherst, and was a Senior Fulbright Research Scholar.
The author of four books and over 70 articles, his most recent book is Striking a Balance, published by Dollars & Sense in 2007. His
research, largely funded by the Alfred P. Sloan Foundation, concerns working time flexibility, biases against caregiving in the academic workplace, the decline of women in intercollegiate coaching,
and public policies for working families. He is a frequent contributor to major media outlets, and has provided Congressional Briefings sponsored by Senators Clinton, Kennedy, and Obama, among others. He was the 2001
recipient of the R.I. Downing Fellowship from the University of Melbourne, serves on the board
of the Berger Institute for Work, Family and Children, and is a member of the
Council on Contemporary Families and the International Association for Feminist
Economics.
The author with his daughters.
Contact
information:
Departments
of Labor Studies and Women's Studies
113 Willard Bldg.
Penn State University
University Park PA 16802
Homepage
814-865-0751 (phone)
814-863-3578 (fax)
drago@psu.edu (email)
