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In April 2020, at the height of the COVID-19 pandemic, Nicole Peyer, 44, of Oakland, CA, was furloughed from her job as a sales consultant for a national wine and spirits distribution company.
After four months, Peyer was rehired, but her needs had changed: With two elementary-school aged kids remote learning at home, she requested a more flexible schedule that would allow her to trade off on childcare with her husband but her employers wouldn’t budge. “I think they wanted to hear that I cared about my job more than my kids,” she said. “My work, being out in the field and visiting clients, was not conducive to the fact that I now had children to watch at home because daycare and school were closed.”
Contexts by Margaret M. Chin | December 27, 2020
A panoramic view of Miami Marlins Park. (Photo by David Aughinbaugh II. Source: Flickr, CC)
Kim Ng’s rise to General Manager of the Florida Marlins is a tremendous accomplishment. Her route getting there is typical of the 103 Asian American professionals and leaders I interviewed for my book
Stuck: Why Asian Americans Don’t Reach the Top of the Corporate Ladder. Ng is superbly overprepared, like many women and people of color before her. What gets them to the top is to be trusted. Like my interviewees, she had to do two times the work just to get half as far. Ng was the youngest Assistant General Manager in 1995, the first woman to argue arbitration and win three world series rings. But this job was 30 years in the making. In fact, she should have been a General Manager 15 years ago. In 2005 she was interviewed by the Los Angeles Dodgers for General Manager but