The Colorado Sun: All-woman ski film highlights lack of gender representation
Skier and filmmaker Sierra Schlag and Sara Beam Robbins, director of “Advice for Girls” Nov. 3, 2023, in Boulder.
(Olivia Sun, The Colorado Sun via Report for America)
“Over the past 30 years, the total number of film segments, known as parts, that have featured female skiers across all three [major ski film] companies is 401, compared with 2,560 parts skied by men, according to an analysis by The Colorado Sun.
At TGR, the first film to feature more than three women appeared in 2002, but it would take another 15 years to reach that four-woman high. Matchstick’s first four-woman film came in 2012. Over that same period, the average number of men featured in TGR films was 17 and 13 in Matchstick movies.”