Yankees’ New Female Coach Claims She Had To Worker Harder Than Males To Get Job

New York Yankees are the latest MLB team to embrace female recruiting. They signed Rachel Balkovec as the Tampa Tarpons’ skipper.

Now to be fair, this hire is not solely just to look good or create internet buzz, Belkovic is a qualified candidate. A former catcher in college, she has worked internationally and throughout professional baseball’s minor league landscapes in a variety of roles and certainly has the experience necessary to be a successful manager.

Balkovec made comments in the past about how she believes she needs to show that she’s a qualified candidate to the job.

“I view my path as an advantage,” Balkovec told The Associated Press in 2019. “It was more work than a male counterpart but it’s something I enjoy because I am better prepared to face any challenge.”

Balkovec’s attitude towards being hired is very off-kilter. She seems to think that her work is less or more than what a man would do in order to get hired. Because she was being hired to manage a minor league baseball team, she knew she would have to be extremely hard at work to show her ability. Is it important what she did to land a job?

Balkovec shouldn’t be bitter about the chance she got. If she thinks it’s unfair, I’m sure there’s a long line of people who would love to take her job.