A new generation of women are knocking down barriers in men's professional sports, including the Vice President of the Astros.
HOUSTON, Texas -- As Astros Vice President of Community Relations and Executive Director of the Astros Foundation, Paula Harris is part of a new generation of women knocking down barriers in men's professional sports.
After college, she worked for Schlumberger in the oil and gas industry, where she stayed for 33 years. She began her career visiting rigs. "It was three o'clock in the morning, backward Louisiana out at a rig site, mud everywhere," said Harris,"I'm dirty. I'm tired. And I remember when I got him to sign my work order, and I was headed back to my company car, and he hit me on the butt, and he says, 'I hope to see you again soon.'"
While working in oil and gas, she'd worked on projects with the owner of the Houston Astros, Jim Crane. When Crane learned she'd left her job, he drafted her to join his club.
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