Robert Drago is Professor of Labor Studies and Women's Studies at Penn State University.

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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.

Striking a Balance materials: Striking a Balance web page, amazon.com (with customer reviews), Boston Globe, Milwaukee Journal-Sentinal (interview with podcast), Washington Post blog, Chronicle of Higher Education, Take Care Net, Podcast of UWW lecture (audio), Podcast UWW (with video/slides).

Recently quoted in or interviewed by:
AP, the Australian, C-Span, CBS MarketWatch, Chicago Tribune, Chronicle of Higher Education, Chronicle of Philanthropy, Fast Company, HR Magazine, Indianapolis Star, Los Angeles Times, Miami Herald, Minneapolis Star-Tribune, National Report on Work & Family, Nature, New York Times, Philadelphia Inquirer, San Francisco Chronicle, St. Paul Pioneer Press, UPI, Washington Post, Women in Higher Education, Working Mother, Working Woman, Work/Life Today.