Kim Ng’s hire doesn’t solve gender inequity, but it takes ‘unprecedented’ to ‘possible’

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Kim Ng’s hire doesn’t solve gender inequity, but it takes ‘unprecedented’ to ‘possible’

When a woman becomes the “first” to do anything, it’s always the triumphant end of something, too. When Kim Ng was named the first female general manager in Major League Baseball, she terminated once and for all the idea that sports leadership requires some tribal-magic inner maleness, some secret passcode acquired from having “played the game.” Henceforth, women execs won’t be seen as incursions but as deservedly promoted.

It’s hardly compensation for the whole lousy historical imbalance, the sexist exclusion, but it’s not small, either. Because it’s one more check mark off the list, one more chance to tell your eye-rolling daughter that, when you said she could do anything, you weren’t feeding her a sugared lie.

Thirty years of patient observation — some salt, grit and a little dirt under her unpolished nails — that’s what it took for Ng to rise through the ranks in baseball. “Decades of determination,” as she said in a statement through the Miami Marlins.

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