by admin | Nov 18, 2021 | Leadership, Representation, SEW
After a pandemic year that upended athletics as much as any industry, 2021 saw the gradual return of fans to the sports they love. Tokyo hosted the 2020 Olympics (without spectators) on a one-year delay, professional teams implemented Covid-19 vaccine requirements and...
by admin | Oct 14, 2021 | Representation, SEW
This evening, the Women’s Sports Foundation celebrated the extraordinary achievements of athletes and leaders in women’s sports, at its Annual Salute. Recognized as the biggest night in women’s sports, the event honored history-making athletes and...
by admin | Apr 22, 2021 | Leadership, Representation, SEW
WHEN KIM NG was hired by the Miami Marlins as their general manager this past MLB offseason, she received ringing endorsements from Michelle Obama, Sharon Robinson and Billie Jean King. In January, she was invited by President Joe Biden to participate...
by admin | Apr 2, 2021 | Leadership, SEW
After years of being passed over, in November Ng became the first woman to be named GM of a North American professional men’s team. Landing the Marlins job was a breakthrough, but Ng knows that to keep it—and help others like her follow—she’ll have to win. Read...
by admin | Mar 5, 2021 | Leadership, SEW
Starting in the early 2000s, sports pundits began predicting that, any moment now, Kim Ng would become the first female general manager in Major League Baseball. They floated the idea in 2005, when she interviewed for the job with the Los Angeles Dodgers. It came up...
by admin | Mar 4, 2021 | Leadership, SEW
Kim Ng took her seat on the chartered jet. As assistant general manager of the Los Angeles Dodgers, she was joining the team on a road trip in 2008. Soon the Dodgers players started filing onto the plane, and a flight attendant began taking drink orders from...
by admin | Feb 16, 2021 | Representation, SEW
Major League Baseball celebrated the hiring of a woman as a sign of progress on diversity in its executive ranks. Every comparable hire over the last two years has been a white man. In a sport dominated by men — specifically, at the top, by white men — Ng symbolized...
by admin | Jan 13, 2021 | Leadership, SEW
The bar has been raised in professional sports, and the issue is whether the NFL can keep pace in providing proper advancement opportunities to those women in front-office roles. The breakthrough came in Major League Baseball in November when the Miami Marlins hired...
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