Kim Ng Made History. Now Comes the Hard Part

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...

How Kim Ng Broke Baseball’s Glass Ceiling

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...

Hailed as a Trailblazer, Kim Ng Stands Alone

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...