This is a great story on the history of women surfers in California. They even mention our Executive Director, Mary Lou Drummy.
“The outspokenness of SoCal surfers like Mary Setterholm, Jericho Poppler, and Mary Lou Drummy, among others, might have chaffed male counterparts, but it also led to the creation of the Women’s International Surfing Association (WISA) in 1975, which held its first event and contest in Malibu.”
Riding Waves, Forging Communities: Surfing, Gender, and Feminism in 20th Century California
www.kcet.org
While popular culture has long obscured women’s role in the sport, California and female surfers have intertwined to spread surfing not only past national boundaries, but also gender and racial equality.