Isa Catto heads her family’s foundation, so she often meets with nonprofit leaders, fundraisers, trustees, and wealth advisers. Even though she is the key decision maker, men in philanthropic circles often direct their attention to her husband when he’s present. When they do focus on her, all too often they spend undue amounts of time establishing their expertise; other times they simply ignore her, she says.
As she notes in an article in this issue: “While my husband and I interviewed one philanthropy consultant, he answered each of my questions aggressively with his own question — à la Kavanaugh and Sen. Amy Klobuchar during his confirmation hearings. He did not do so with my husband,” she writes. When she interacts with fundraisers and others, she says she is often “invisible as they focus attention on my husband and avoid eye contact with me.”
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