Meet Meghan Brosnahan, director of e-discovery services at Sutter Health, the second largest healthcare provider in Northern California.

Brosnahan has a fascinating story—she details her career journey and how she has navigated both changing technology and corporate politics. Over the course of her career, “the most important thing I’ve learned is to watch the people above me and throughout the organization—and learn what I respect and value and identify the actions I don’t want to emulate,” said Brosnahan in the article on Bloomberg’s Big Law Business. Read it here.

This is the third of our BLB series of profiles of women lawyers in tech-related jobs. See also, “Being Lucy Bassli, Assistant General Counsel at Microsoft,” and “Being Julie Pearl, Legal Tech Entrepreneur.”

My goal in writing these profiles is to inspire girls and women to dive into STEM jobs (science, technology, engineering and math) and to reinforce that you do not need to be “perfect” to succeed. The current stats are dismal, and have been for quite a while: Only 20 percent of tech jobs in Silicon Valley go to women, and there is an 18 percent pay gap between Big Law women and men, and across the board in legal.

But just for the record: I’m not Pollyanna naive. There is no easy fix  (but don’t get me started on Big Law pay). I’m currently reading (or should I say, “listening to,” via audio on my commutes) Anne-Marie Slaughter‘s new book, “Unfinished Business: Women Men Work Family.” She is the president and CEO of think tank New America, and also is a Professor Emerita of Politics and International Affairs at Princeton University.

Slaughter addresses with great nuance the challenges faced by men and women, and it’s not just about managing children. (I’ll be writing about the book shortly in the CodeX Book Club.) A key takeaway is to acknowledge that this ain’t easy, and the nuances are often exasperating. But we can’t give up. More and more I find my self preaching, “The Perfect is the Enemy of the Good.”

Monica Bay is a CodeX Fellow and a freelance reporter for Bloomberg BNA’s Big Law Business. She is a member of the California bar.  Twitter: @MonicaBay Email: mbay@codex.stanford.edu.