Susan Shaw

3 weeks ago | forbes.com | Susan Shaw

The business of women’s sports has boomed over the past several years. A number of converging factors, from social media to analytics to growing audiences, have benefitted the business of women’s sports. Sports writer and professor Jane McManus explores the burgeoning women’s sports business in her new book, The Fast Track: Inside the Surging Business of Women's Sports. I talked with McManus to get the scoop on what’s behind the financial growth of women’s sports.

1 month ago | forbes.com | Susan Shaw

The field is set for the 2025 NCAA Division I women’s basketball tournament, and picking the winner seems to be a trickier prediction each year. While the University of Connecticut dominated college women’s hoops for years, the Huskies haven’t won the championship since 2016, although they’ve stayed a top team. In fact, over the past eight years, five different teams have won it all (with one year cancelled because of Covid). Only South Carolina has repeated.

Oct 4, 2024 | forbes.com | Susan Shaw

If you pay attention to sports news at all, you’ve probably heard the recent outcry about the racist comments, posts, and treatment that’s been aimed at many of the WNBA’s top Black players this season. You may wonder how a league that’s prided itself on its commitment to diversity has ended up here, but as someone who studies intersections between gender, race, and sports, I’m not terribly surprised.

Jun 21, 2024 | msmagazine.com | Susan Shaw

In 1970, college student Katherine Ann Power became involved with a revolutionary anti-war guerilla group. Power was the getaway driver when the group attempted to rob a Massachusetts bank to help finance the anti-war movement. During the robbery, one of her comrades shot and killed a police officer. Three robbers were caught. Power went on the run for the next 23 years. She took on a new identity and started a new life throughout small towns in Oregon, while on the FBI’s 10 Most Wanted list.

Jun 17, 2024 | malaysia.news.yahoo.com | Susan Shaw

Susan M. Shaw, Oregon State University17 June 2024 at 11:31 am·5-min readThe recent annual meeting of the Southern Baptist Convention saw a number of motions related to women. The Conversation asked Susan Shaw, a gender and sexuality studies scholar who studies Southern Baptist women, to explain the votes and other developments in the nation’s largest Protestant denomination. The Southern Baptist Convention rejected a proposal that would explicitly state that only men could be pastors.