Women’s History Month Observed

In celebration of National Women’s History Month, Ventura County branches of the American Assn. of University Women are inspiring students about notable women, past and present.

In Thousand Oaks and Oak Park, girls are performing short monologues of women, including suffragist Susan B. Anthony, cookbook author Fannie Farmer and Harlem Renaissance writer Zora Neale Hurston.

Classrooms from campuses such as Meadows, Banyan, Brookside, Oak Hills and Red Oaks elementary schools and Sequoia Middle School will receive “visitors”--girls dressed up in character--who will discuss specific women as important contributors to American society.

On Sunday, many of the girls performed these characters at Border’s Books in Thousand Oaks.

Earlier in March, the Camarillo chapter of AAUW organized a math and science fair for 1,000 sixth- to 12th-grade girls. About 30 workshops were set up to teach them about technology, biology and other fields that women have traditionally shied away from.