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Dr. Peggy Drexler

Research Psychologist, Assistant Professor of Psychology at Weill Medical College, Cornell University

Peggy Drexler, Ph.D. is a research psychologist, Assistant Professor of Psychology at Weill Medical College, Cornell University, former gender scholar at Stanford University and author of two books about modern families and the children they produce.

Peggy is a regular contributor to a range of publications and Web sites including CNNopinion, The Daily Beast, Huffington Post, the Wall Street Journal, Psychology Today, Forbes and others.  She has appeared on a number of national television programs including Bloomberg, PBS, Katie Couric Show, Good Morning America and the Today Show. Peggy has spent her career studying the dynamics of men, women, families and the changing workplace.

Gender Equality Is a Myth!
By Beyoncé Knowles-Carter
We need to stop buying into the myth about gender equality. It isn’t a reality yet. Today, women make up half of the U.S. workforce, but the average working woman earns only 77 percent of what the average working man makes. But unless women and men both say this is unacceptable, things will not change.  → Read More
What If the Biggest Obstacle for a Woman is the One in her Mind?
Women, by many accounts, have all the makings to be on top. More than 70 percent of high school valedictorians in 2012 were women. For decades, more female students than male students have graduated from college. Afterwards, more of them than their male counterparts—some 53 versus 47 percent—claim entry-level management jobs, according to a report by McKinsey Research But somewhere along the line, the numbers drop for women: to 37 percent for mid-managers, and even lower, to 26 percent, for vice presidents and up.  → Read More
In Today’s Workplace Is It a Negotiation or a Battle of the Sexes?
Every study indicates millennial males are an evolved model of masculinity: kinder, more accepting, unintimidated by dirty diapers, comfortable with sharing power with a new generation of high-achieving females. But how well do we really know them – particularly in the workplace? The new generation of women and work have been peeled, prodded and parsed from every angle – their education, their numbers, their issues, their needs, their frustrations. But you would be hard pressed to find one illuminating equivalent study on the male side of the gender divide.  → Read More
The Rise of the Stay-at-Home Dad – A Work In Progress
Calling all tired, overworked, under-appreciated moms: The times they are a-changing. According to recent studies, men are shouldering more of the domestic burden — and spending more time parenting — than any generation before them. They’re more involved with their families. They hug more, they say “I love you” more.  → Read More
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