After being passed over, Kim Ng has finally become the first female general manager in the MLB as the new Marlins GM. On November 13, when she was hired, famous women from across the US congratulated her on social media. This job has been long in the making.
In the past year, a variety of women have risen through the ranks in sports, from coaches to officials. But prejudice is still very pervasive, and the first women in the field have a big burden to carry, just as the first Blacks did as well.
"At her introductory press conference, Ng, fully aware that bad actors can point to one woman’s lack of success as an indictment of all women holding top decision-making spots, said that when she got the job, 'there was a 10,000-lb. weight lifted off of this shoulder. And then after about half an hour later, I realized that it had just been transferred to [my other] shoulder.'"
