The Metro: Marketplace’s Kimberly Adams on who carries the economy, and who gets to lead
The Marketplace Morning Report host on Black women and leadership, and her own path from Cairo to the host’s chair.
It all began when she chased a news crew down the street at 16, asking for an internship. Today, Kimberly Adams hosts Marketplace Morning Report, and still believes better information can lead to kinder choices.
The numbers can tell you what is happening in the economy, but they rarely tell you why.
For example: among college-educated women in their prime working years, Black women are the most likely to be working or looking for work. Yet they make up about 2% of private-sector managers, according to an analysis from economist Valerie Wilson, published last month by the Institute for Women’s Policy Research.
In other words, showing up is not the same as moving up.
This week, that institute brought a national conference on women and the economy to Detroit. Journalist Kimberly Adams was there, on a panel about Black women in leadership with Donna Brazile, the Democratic strategist who ran Al Gore’s 2000 presidential campaign.
Adams is host and senior editor of Marketplace Morning Report. She joined host Robyn Vincent on The Metro to discuss who carries the economy, who gets to lead, and when those two overlap.
Hear the full conversation using the media player above.
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