Peggy Drexler

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 Our Fathers, Ourselves: Daughters, Fathers, and the Changing American Family and Raising Boys Without Men. Drexler is a regular contributor to a range of publications and Web sites: CNN, 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, and has spent her career studying the dynamics of men, women, families and the changing workplace.

Recent Articles

The Problem Isn't Over-Sharing. It's Over-Following

For better or worse, we're too willing to listen

By Peggy Drexler

Jimmy Fallon Scores One for the Nice Guys

Here’s to Jimmy. The good guys need a win.

By Peggy Drexler

How Do You Solve a Problem Like Woody Allen?

Refreshed allegations by the filmmaker's adopted daughter, Dylan Farrow, bring up the personal, the professional and the political — and how to untangle them all

By Peggy Drexler

The Millennials Are All Right

Whether this is or isn't a generation of narcissists, it's hardly the first to be shaped by media

By Peggy Drexler

American Eagle's Anti-Photoshopping Campaign Is Insidious Stuff, Too

The company won't be airbrushing their lingerie models—but that doesn't mean they have girls and women's interests at heart.

By Peggy Drexler

The Deafening Silence of Weapons Makers

The companies that manufacture the world's high-powered assault rifles and shotguns are largely out of the public's eye, shrouded from the tragedies that they cause, thanks to a campaign waged by the National Rifle Association

By Peggy Drexler

Let's End the Hugging Arms Race

I am not a hugger. And I am not alone.

By Peggy Drexler
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