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 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 time use among parents of infants, 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, including the HuffingtonPost, 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, the International Association for Feminist Economics, and the Population Association of America.

Striking a Balance materials: Striking a Balance web page, amazon.com (with customer reviews), Take Note interview, the Longview.org interview, 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).

2007 Lecture schedule for Striking a Balance:
"Workshop on Work and Family," Women in Science and Engineering Program, Boston University (11/8), Center on Aging and Work/Workplace Flexibility, Center for Work and Family, Sloan Work and Family Research Network, Boston College (McQuinn 5th Fl. Lounge, 11:30a, 11/7); Workplace Center, MIT, Boston (1p, 11/6); Dept. of Economics and Center for Public Policy Administration, U.Mass/Amherst (4p, 11/5), Hunter College, NYC (4p, 10/24); Teachers' College, NYC (3p, 10/23); Columbia University, NYC (1p, 10/23); What's the Economy For? Conference, Washington DC (11:15a, Wash. Convention Center, 10/6); Department of Sociology, George Washington University, DC (2p, Phillips Hall #410, 10/4); District of Columbia Sociological Society, DC (7p, Georgetown Univ., 10/4); University of Missouri, Columbia (4p, N222/223 Memorial Union, 9/24); Carework Conference, NYC (8/10); ACREW lecture, Monash University, Melbourne AU (7/3); Work/Life Association Roundtable, Melbourne AU (6/27); LERA Public Policy Forum, Washington DC (6/15); ADVANCE forum, Auburn University, AL (5/8); Boston College Work-Family Roundtable, San Diego CA (5/3); Association of Women Faculty lecture, University of Tennessee, Knoxville (4/26); MHRLR Spring Forum, UW-Milwaukee (4/19); Whitewater Economics Society, UW-Whitewater (4/18); Labor Studies Alumni meeting, Penn State, University Park (4/13); Department of Economics lecture, University of Massachusetts at Boston (4/6); START Diversity Conference, Penn State, University Park (3/30)

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.  

Recent songs written: Morning Light, Life in Time, Winter Song, or if you want to get depressed, try Come As You Are

Contact information:
Departments of Labor Studies and Women's Studies
113 Willard Bldg. 
Penn State University
University Park PA 16802
814-865-0751 (phone)
814-863-3578 (fax)
drago@psu.edu (email)