Progress for Women

Q&A with Suzette Dutch, Managing Partner at Triathlon Medical Ventures

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Suzette Dutch is Managing Partner at Triathlon Medical Ventures, a venture capital firm that provides equity capital to early and expansion stage companies with proprietary biomedical technology platforms and products addressing significant human healthcare needs. Suzette has 30 years of venture investing experience and 10 years of operating experience in pharmaceuticals, surgical devices and diagnostics. …

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‘Charlotte Walsh Likes to Win’: A Novel About Women and Ambition on the Campaign Trail

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In no other sphere is Americans’ ambivalence about ambitious women more fraught—or so clearly on display—than on the campaign trail. And so Jo Piazza’s novel about a woman running for U.S. Senate in Pennsylvania has particular relevance as it debuts in the midst of an election cycle in which there are an unprecedented number of …

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How the Cookie Crumbles: Implications of Gendered Compliments in the Workplace

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Language reflects and incorporates social norms, signaling—whether the speaker is aware of it or not—expectations about the way that people are supposed to behave. Women are supposed to be caring and helpful. Men are supposed to be competitive and assertive. For our purposes, it isn’t necessary to explain how, historically, these conceptions have developed. It …

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Sorry! Not Sorry? A Colloquy

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Eighth-year associate Amanda Bartlett and first-year associate Kate Saba recall an email exchange discussing the gender politics around women apologizing at work. Amanda Bartlett (Eighth-year associate, Litigation Department): Kate–Remember that time I laid into you about over-apologizing when you hadn’t done anything wrong, you pushed back, and we ended up with “Let’s write an article about …

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Accelerating Progress for Women, in the Boardroom and Beyond

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The new face of feminism looks an awful lot like Justin Trudeau. Recently we attended the Catalyst Awards Dinner at the Waldorf Astoria, where Canadian Prime Minister, The Right Honorable Justin Trudeau was the evening’s featured speaker. Catalyst is an organization dedicated to accelerating progress for women through workplace inclusion, and each year they honor initiatives that …

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