Jackson Hole Woman 2023

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Legisladies

Rep. Liz Storer is only the third woman to represent Teton County in the statehouse.

Care costs

Research shows unpaid family caregiving reduces a mother’s lifetime earnings.

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Guiding while female can be a challenge and a chance to increase fly-fishing’s profile.

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he mountains and rugged country of Jackson Hole have drawn many an independent woman, including homesteader Geraldine Lucas in 1912, a trio of retired teachers who dubbed themselves “The Bettys” in 1962, and scads of climbing and ski bums in the decades since.

And the past century of Jackson Hole history has some remarkable “firsts” for women.

This year the valley celebrated the 100-year anniversary of the first documented female to summit the grand, Eleanor Davis. People love to reference our all-woman town council elected in 1920, the same year the 19th Amendment first granted women the right to vote. Marilyn Kite was appointed as the first female Wyoming Supreme Court justice in 2000 and its first female chief justice in 2010.

But the firsts only tell part of the story, the warm and fuzzy part.

We talk less often about the disparity of women to men in positions of leadership. Or how after the Petticoat Rulers, Jackson did not see another woman in an elected position until the 1980s.

Keeping track of where women remain underrepresented, earn less, or are treated more as objects than as people can hold us accountable. It can even be inspiring.

In this edition of Jackson Hole Women, we’re not telling the story of “firsts,” but about women still pushing for change. These are adventurers, artists and politicians. These are ultra-athletes who make the extreme borderline quotidian. These are your neighbors who push representation in art and caretakers who show how our systems of compensation aren’t fair.

Over time, inequality compounds.

That can be literal, as told in the results of a new report from the U.S. Department of Labor (page 4).

Breaking out of the workforce to take care of kids means not just losing a paycheck but also losing retirement or savings and workplace experience.

While caretaking can be done by men, it is still overwhelmingly done by women.

These are some stories of women who continue to wrestle with being one of a few. They may be out there, but they’re not alone.

— Sophia Boyd-Fliegel

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State representative makes the case for Teton County in Cheyenne Storer is 3rd woman from Teton County elected to Legislature.

Wyoming women face barriers to running for office

By Jasmine Hall

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iz Storer remembers her paternal grandmother Mary Perley Wakeman as a woman who got things done.

“She chose to divorce my grandfather in the late ’40s, when most people did not get divorced,” Storer said. “Because she just couldn’t live life on her terms.”

Wakeman struck out on her own to raise four sons and eventually moved to an island off Cape Cod, where she was revered for her conservation work later in life. She was a member of the Martha’s Vineyard Garden Club and, according to her alma mater Wells College, stood up for “confronting without alienating those who would have practiced the profaning ways of commercialism by erecting signs on the island.”

This would drive Wakeman to become the founder of the Vineyard Conservation Society and earn a conservation award for leading fundraising efforts that added the Wasque region to the Cape Poge Wildlife Refuge in Massachusetts. Storer recalled time with Wakeman as formative to her conservation ethos during one “critical and miserable 11-year-old summer.”

From the other side of her family, Storer’s mother, Ginny, also had an independent streak. She wore pants in an era when it was considered controversial and pushed for a role in the workforce.

“The battle for her to go work outside the home was significant,” Storer said. “My dad acquiesced, but it was not the easiest thing for him.”

Storer lives in a different time.

Working outside the home has meant being elected to the Statehouse. She wears pants without thinking twice.

She’s keenly aware, though, that her journey to elected office is one very few women take.

There have been 27 women elected to the Senate in Wyoming from 1930 to 2022, with Sen. April Brimmer Kunz, R-Cheyenne, becoming the first and only woman to become president of the chamber in 2003. There have been 64 male presidents.

Far more women have been elected to the House, a body that’s about twice as big as the Senate. A total of 119 women were elected to the Wyoming House of Representatives between 1910 and 2022. Only 3% of those women have held the title of speaker — in 1966 and 1969.

The total number of women elected to the Legislature is also smaller than the combined 146 cited by the Legislative Service Office online, because many successfully ran for office in both chambers and were listed twice.

Why so few?

Storer cited challenges like finding child care, a persistent wage gap, the interruptive timing of the session, traveling requirements, a lack of proper legislative compensation and the inability to take time off from work. Those barriers particularly hit working-class candidates like teachers and young Wyomingites who don’t have Storer’s resources.

She said addressing some of these issues would create a better Wyoming, carrying forward legislation like the postpartum Medicaid extension bill for new mothers, passed this year.

How Storer got to her seat in Cheyenne is a story of dedication and privilege, opportunity and support.

The freshman Democratic law-

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Democratic state Rep. Liz Storer is the third woman in Teton County’s history to be elected to the Wyoming Legislature. She believes it’s important to have a diverse citizen legislature that represents the experiences of residents across the state. Otherwise, she said, you are left with an “echo chamber.”

maker was born in 1957. She grew up on the East Coast, attended boarding school in New York and spent summers in the Cowboy State on a ranch near Saratoga that belonged to her grandfather, broadcasting pioneer George B. Storer. This entailed catching a flight out of John F. Kennedy International Airport to Denver and then transferring to a private plane bound for Saratoga — inevitably ending the trip by throwing up.

Some of Storer’s early press in Jackson Hole was for fly-fishing, a sport she learned from her dad. She became a fly-fishing guide on the upper North Platte River and was the first woman to compete on the U.S. Fly Fishing team. In 1997, the world championship was held in Jackson.

What has received less attention is Storer’s background in the arts. She attended the University of Southern California for film school and went on to receive bachelor’s and master’s degrees from the Cinema School at USC. One of her summers she even spent dressing sets, or as “a glorified furniture mover.”

“That taught me that I can do a lot,” she said. “I can fix the toilet. I can hang a chandelier. I could move furniture, work in movie studios.”

When Storer settled in Wyoming after school she found direction in her grandfather’s legacy, working to protect Wyoming’s natural resources.

Storer served on the board of the Ruckelshaus Institute, a division of the Haub School of Environment and Natural Resources at the University of Wyoming, worked on State Trust Land Task Forces and led the George B. Storer Foundation, which

has funded conservation and education initiatives in the state for more than 65 years.

She leaned on that legacy in her 2022 legislative campaign.

“We have a long history of bipartisan philanthropic and political work across the state, over three generations,” she wrote for her campaign.

“That heritage and my public policy experience allows me to make the case for Teton County while working across the aisle to build alliances.”

Following environmental issues landed her in the halls of the Wyoming Legislature 29 years before she worked as a lawmaker. Storer first stepped into the state Capitol in 1994 as a lobbyist for the Wyoming Outdoor Council.

Storer ended up staying in Cheyenne longer than expected after meeting her first husband, state engineer and chief water resource official Jeff Fassett.

In 1996 she ran for the House District 8 seat. Back then there were more women in the Legislature than there are now, and she said she still didn’t believe it was enough.

While she said she knew it would be difficult to earn the same number of votes as her male Republican opponent, Larry Meuli, she attempted to take on the campaign entirely alone, posting signs in yards by herself. The only help she had was with the logo.

“Don’t try to do it all yourself, which is what I did the first time around,” Storer said. “I have those skills. I can write and all that, but you’re better off allowing others to help craft your message and making sure that you’re See LEGISLATURE on 8E

Recent research by professors of politics and internal relations has shown that women are just as likely as men to be voted into office but are rarely found on the ballots.

A lack of representation of women in office is an issue nationwide. There is evidence, however, that both overarching societal barriers and state-specific challenges contribute, according to research funded by the Wyoming Women’s Foundation in partnership with the Equality State Policy Center and produced by the Wyoming Survey and Analysis Center at the University of Wyoming.

The foundation cites studies that found women are under-recruited by political party leadership, which is driven by the belief that female candidates are less competitive, less confident and more risk averse than their male counterparts. They are also less likely to be encouraged to run.

“The experiences of high-profile candidates like Sarah Palin and Hillary Clinton have shaped women’s perceptions of gender bias in the electoral arena,” according to “Wyoming Women in Elected Roles.” “In one study the majority of female potential candidates believed that Palin and Clinton were subjected to sexist media coverage, penalized for speaking with confidence and that too much attention was placed on their appearance.

“This can also be true in the state Legislature, where women have to carefully navigate between appearing weak and appearing overly ambitious and aggressive in order to be heard.”

Women can also face a lack of support within their personal and professional circles to encourage them to run for elected office.

Douglas native Gabrielle Murphy studied the gender gap in Wyoming politics as part of Master of Public Policy degree at the University of Virginia. She used data from the foundation to ask why Wyoming women would be less incentivized to run for office.

Murphy’s study found that people doubt women’s qualifications and that women lack encouragement to run. Without support, Murphy found, many would not run, despite 60% of women saying they would otherwise not rule out running for office in 2020.

Both Murphy and the search funded by community partners addressed barriers specific to the state, measuring the degree to which women are responsible for the majority of unpaid child care and household labor, making it difficult to participate in political campaigns.

Across all sectors, Wyoming women earn just 70 cents for every $1 men earn in the state, according to a 2021 “Wyoming Women as Economic Drivers” report, leaving them with less discretionary income to supplement one of the lowest legislative salaries in the nation.

Child care and heath care aren’t available to legislators, excluding many Wyomingites who have full-time jobs or cannot afford to be away from their families or jobs for long stretches.

Murphy pushed for solutions to this issue in three major ways based on evidence collected in her program: candidate training programs to better equip women with the tools necessary to run a campaign, gender balance legislation promoting equal representation by considering gender proportions within government bodies, and better legislative pay and reimbursement.

Without action, she wrote, women would continue to suffer the “real economic, physical, and mental consequences.

“Wyoming is missing half of the talented people it could have in the Legislature,” she wrote. “These costs will be felt within families and by Wyoming women for years.”

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Women caregivers stand to earn 15% less in a lifetime New reports show the cost of persistent gap in who minds the children.

By Jeannette Boner

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my Ross was making “good money” as a teacher in California.

“I was doing quite well,” said Ross, who now lives in Victor, Idaho, and works for Wilson-based TravelStorysGPS. “I chose to cut back on my work when I had kids because I wanted to and was able to.”

Ross has two sons. When her boys were babies, she was breastfeeding, home-schooling, and making less as an educator than her husband, who was also a teacher. Additionally, one of her sons needed care that could not be met in a traditional child care facility. So she dropped out of the workforce altogether.

Many other mothers would not be so privileged, Ross acknowledged. But it wasn’t until after her divorce, when her boys were cresting their teens, that she realized the monetary value of her staying home to care for her children.

Staying home had taken Ross out of the workforce and, in turn, out of the running for workplace experience and financial gains in the form of pay raises and promotions.

Additionally, while she was working at raising kids she wasn’t earning a paycheck and therefore not contributing monetarily to mortgages, retirement and savings.

“I think that was a real struggle when we were getting divorced,” Ross said. “Yes, I may be capable of earning more, but I was out of the workforce for years. I had to fight for that to be considered in our settlement.”

Ross is not the only woman to see a lifetime earnings gap after being called upon to be

NATIONAL PARTNERSHIP FOR WOMEN AND FAMILIES

A 2022 American Time Use Survey reported that men spend just over 26 minutes a day caring for children or other family members, whereas women average a bit under 52 minutes.

a primary caregiver. A new report from the U.S. Department of Labor confirms that, and with a large price tag.

The “Lifetime Employment-Related Costs to Women of Providing Family Care” report, released in February, estimates that employmentrelated costs for mothers providing unpaid care averages $295,000 over a lifetime.

Unpaid family caregiving reduces a mother’s lifetime earnings by 15%, which also creates a reduction in retirement income, the report said.

Overall, 69% of women age 62 and older who never have children work 35 or more years, compared with 59% of those with one or two children and 42% of those with three or more children.

This is a first-of-its-kind report from the Department of Labor, but similar reports over the decades have suggested the same kind of findings.

“Families often think first of immediate demands out of necessity,” the director of the department’s Women’s Bureau, Wendy Chun-Hoon, said

in a news release.

“Children, aging loved ones and people with disabilities need care right now, and when that care is needed during working hours — or is too expensive or inaccessible — it is the mothers who usually scale back on paid work to provide care,” she said.

The Department of Labor report points to lifetime caregiving-related earning losses representing 26% of potential earnings for mothers who did not complete high school and 19% of potential earnings for Hispanic mothers.

“Many Hispanic and less educated workers are employed in jobs that offer little flexibility, for example, and many do not earn enough to afford paid childcare,” the report read.

The study excluded women who never have children because, on average, the lifetime economic cost of caring for children far exceeds the cost of caring for adults who need assistance. The report also excluded men, because fathers are much less likely

NATIONAL PARTNERSHIP FOR WOMEN AND FAMILIES

With women averaging 25 more additional minutes of caregiving than men each day, that means an additional 153 hours of care annually or four full work weeks a year, according to an analysis from the National Partnership for Women and Families. That amounts to about $625 billion in unpaid care produced from women.

than mothers to reduce their work to care for children.

This statistic was highlighted in a 2022 Bureau of Labor Statistics report that found 66% of women with children younger than age 6 participated in the labor force, compared with 94% of men with children younger than 6.

“Caregiving demands can also force some workers to move to lower-paying jobs or forgo promotions,” said the Bureau of Labor Statistics.

A 2022 American Time Use Survey reported that men spend just over 26 minutes a day caring for children or other family members, whereas women average a bit under 52 minutes.

“This gap means that women average 25 more additional minutes of caregiving than men each day, amounting to an additional 153 hours of care annually — four full work weeks a year,” read a 2023 analysis from the National Partnership for

Women and Families. That amounts to about $625 billion in unpaid care produced from women, compared with $300 billion for men annually.

For Ross, reemerging into the workforce was a shift from her previous profession as an educator. She had to find a job that allowed her to remain the primary caregiver and have work schedules that could be adjusted for pediatric appointments and kid sick days and offered opportunities to work from home to keep pace with school holiday schedules.

Ross likes her job at TravelStorysGPS, but it’s not what she trained to do. She credits much of her success to her bosses.

“A huge reason I have advanced at my company is because it’s led by strong women who empathically understand women’s needs as professionals and caregivers,” she said.

Contact Jeannette Boner at 307-732-5901 or schools@ jhnewsandguide.com.

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Women run toward endless possibilities For some female ultra-athletes, extremes are almost casual.

By Kyle Leverone

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or someone of Lisa Smith-Batchen’s caliber, it’s hard to imagine there was a first time running an ultra marathon.

Her website hosts a detailed list of her racing accomplishments, but it appears she’s lost count of how many marathons she’s run in her lifetime: 35 ultramarathons (50 miles or more) and “over 90 marathons.”

Though it seems as if Smith-Batchen, 63, was born winning 50-plus-mile races, as she put it, “your first time you never forget.”

That first ultra was the Badwater 135 from Death Canyon to Mount Whitney in California at the age of 35.

“I crossed the finish line there,” she said, “and of course, I said ‘No way. Never, never, ever will I do anything like this again.’”

What a lie to herself that was.

Twenty-eight years later, she is still going. Not only did she keep running, but she’s inspired others along the way and helped foster an ultra community in Jackson, crowded with women who run ultras in addition to making the town go ’round.

Take Laurie Andrews, 55. Now the president of the Community Foundation of Jackson Hole and previously the president of the Jackson Hole Land Trust for 15 years, Andrews has led a busy career for about two decades. In 2007, she raced the Grand Teton Races 100-miler and won.

Early on in her tenure at the Land Trust, Andrews felt left out when her friends would go to the park and get their hikes in during the summer while she was held up working, so she started doing loops on her own.

“But I needed to get back in time,” Andrews said, “so I had to start running them.”

After gradually getting more into running, a friend made a bet with Andrews to run a 50-miler out near Grand Targhee. The morning of the race it snowed. She ended up placing second among all women. Her friend? He bailed. After the race, An-

drews met Smith-Batchen, who helped her start training for the 100-miler, which she ultimately won.

In February 2009, Andrews ran the Susitna 100, a 100-mile race over frozen lakes, rivers and part of Alaska’s egregious Iditarod Trail. In February, the trail is dark 13 hours a day.

“I finished that one,” she said. “I did not win that one. I’m not sure anyone won that one. It was pretty awful.”

That’s the thing about these ultramarathons. For the most part, they’re all awful. Running 100 miles in extreme weather, in altitude, up and down mountain passes, etc. It’s all inhumane. Which is what makes it all the more rewarding.

“The thing I love about it,” said Elizabeth Peltz, a nurse in Jackson Hole, “that’s also what makes it so hard. Each day when I’m done with some of the hardest days I’ve ever had on a bike, I think, ‘I have to do that again tomorrow.’ So there’s this weird tension between the trepidation, but also the accomplishment.”

Peltz works at the Village Clinic, at St. John’s Urgent Care, and in oncology in an outpatient clinic in the hospital. She also volunteers at Hole Food Rescue and Teton Free Clinic. Still, she manages to go on multi-day bikepacking trips, the most significant being 530 miles along the Colorado Trail from Denver to Durango and a three-day loop on the north rim of the Grand Canyon.

While Peltz loves these types of ultra endurance tests, having also run a number of 20-plus-mile races, she appreciates her career too much to put a premium focus on these endeavors.

“I just really look up to women in the community who are making a difference in a job,” Peltz said.

“Nursing is actually quite flexible. Some of those jobs are less flexible with your time, and endurance athleticism takes a lot of time, so you’re fitting that in. … There are a lot of women in the Jackson community who have that balance, and I appreciate that immensely.”

Amanda Sullivan, 38, who was born and raised in Jackson and has won multiple El Vaquero Loco 50K’s and Bighorn Mountain 100-milers (among many, many others), roasts coffee at Snake River Roasting Company, but she, too, wins races.

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Lisa Smith-Batchen is one of the region’s most prominent ultra-endurance athletes. She has completed 10 Badwater Ultramarathons, three Marathon Des Sables ultramarathons (was the first American woman to win the event in 1999) and has run over 90 marathons.

Hardly any of it is for money, unless you’re Smith-Batchen, who has raised millions of dollars throughout her career for a number of different causes. The most Sullivan has ever won is $200, and pushing herself along while pursuing a career is redeeming enough.

“To show that I can have a career and do all of these things is pretty cool,” Sullivan said. “LearnSee ATHLETES on 6E

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ing that balance is hard, and I don’t have to do it, I just feel like I need to do it.”

At a young age, Sullivan saw women like Smith-Batchen and running legend Pam Reed, and she decided that she wanted to be like them.

Before Sullivan was running for the Jackson Hole crosscountry team, she said she felt that “girls just didn’t do that kind of stuff.”

Now, she sees a whole community of women invested in supporting each other through these sports.

“I just feel like the possibilities are endless,” said SmithBatchen, who has been coaching athletes for 47 years. “The women in this community prove that in almost everything they do.”

For someone like Andrews, that rings true while running community nonprofits for years and insisting women hold onto their personal dreams.

“I think it’s really important for women to be able to follow their passions,” Andrews said. “It doesn’t matter what you do, it’s really important, and I think that it feeds our soul.”

Mountain biking, trail and road running — there are many endeavors in Jackson that could be classified as ruthless and remorseless. Whether it is racing in a 120-degree sand storm or in the dead of Alaska winter, something is going to hurt while running an ultramarathon.

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Amanda Sullivan was overcome with emotion after being the first woman to cross the finish line of the 100-miler at the 2022 Bighorn Trail Run. Sullivan, who roasts coffee at Snake River Roasting Company, has won over 10 ultramarathons in her career.

“Everything hurts,” SmithBatchen said. “From the tips of your toes to the top of your head, your right leg, something is going to hurt. ...

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ing to be really miserable.”

It’s gruesome, but being able to accomplish these feats and learn more about oneself throughout the process is invaluable.

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Picking it up and putting it back down For female fishing guides, tokenism can be double-edged.

By Sophia Boyd-Fliegel

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auling a pea-green boat down ramps along the Snake River, JB Pope catches people staring.

She’s used to it, the surprised looks from clients who weren’t expecting her behind the wheel of the truck.

It could be because she’s young (the native of Birmingham, Alabama, is 25). It could be because she’s a woman.

It’s probably both, she conceded on a recent fishing trip in the falling light of a late September Sunday, but it doesn’t bother her. Unless it disrupts a trip.

“I’ve only been on one day-off trip where I was like, ‘Wow, someone’s really making me feel like I’m not supposed to be here,’” she said. “And that’s so silly.”

Pope, who is finishing her rookie season guiding professionally for Snake River Angler, is one of only a handful of female commercial guides in Jackson Hole.

While there’s no authoritative source on the ratio of guys to gals in the professional fly-fishing scene, calls to industry leaders suggested a regional total of upwards of 10 female guides out of over 200 total. That’s 5%.

Or, as Pope observed simply, “it’s a sausage fest.”

Will Broeder, general manager at Snake River Angler, said the gender gap is one of tremendous opportunities and tremendous challenges.

“It’s definitely a double-edged sword,” he said. “There’s guys definitely putting them through the wringer, doubting what they know. At the same time, there’s lots of people seeking out

those guides.”

Tracy Yannelli, 45, started working for Fish the Fly four years ago. Like Pope, she’s accustomed to making calls to clients before a day in the backcountry, hearing skepticism in their voice, and feeling the pressure.

“You can tell by the tone of their voice,” Yannelli said. “You definitely feel a bit judged.”

She used to field calls from people specifically asking to not have a female guide, she said, “which was always really shocking.”

National sources that track fishing demographics have framed gender discrepancy as a threat to the future of the sport.

According to the Recreational Boating and Fishing Foundation, only 3 in 10 participants in the sport in 2021 were female. The foundation specifically tracks demographics of youth, Hispanic Americans, and females, “populations we must engage, activate, and retain to ensure future growth.”

Female guides often provide a way for other women to feel comfortable on the water, showing a path forward in a sport that’s not always recognized as a viable profession for women.

In 2017, The New York Times reported that women were the only “growing demographic” in the sport, which the paper labeled “one of the most male-dominated outdoor sports.”

In Jackson Hole, the few are mighty, and have been that way for a while.

There are records of women guiding hunting, fishing, whitewater rafting and scenic float trips in the valley since the 1920s.

“We had a small population, and pretty much everyone had to step up,” said Jean Bruun, a fly-fishing guide See GUIDES on 20E

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Jackson Republican Ruth Ann Petroff is seen here at the Capitol in 2015, when she was a state representative.

Jackson Hole High School intern Brie Richardson, standing, works with state Rep. Clarene Law during the 1997 legislative session in Cheyenne. Law, a Republican, was the first woman from Teton County elected to the Legislature.

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mittee meetings.

In the tightest local race of the year, Storer beat Republican opponent Paul Vogelheim narrowly by a margin that was the near inverse of her first run: 163 votes.

At the time she credited her success, in part, with being “clear on reproductive rights.” Throughout the campaign Storer pointed to what she felt were inconsistencies in Vogelheim’s positions on abortion.

She states a point of pride in her first legislative session as working across the aisle in a highly conservative Legislature. While reproductive rights bills limiting abortion were decided on the conservative extreme, Storer found she could sink her teeth into the legislative logic of lowering property taxes.

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spending your time talking to voters and raising the money.”

She lost the ’96 election by less than 200 votes.

It would take 26 more years before she was casting votes for her constituents and figuring out what it takes to get a “yes” from fellow lawmakers.

In 2022, Storer had been living in Teton County since 2008, worked successfully as a lobbyist, chaired boards and had the financial backing to face elected office again. She ran on issues close to Teton County’s blue core, like affordable housing, reforming “parochial and antiquated approaches to investment management” and state trust land management.

She took the campaign leap again

with a better support system in 2022 after Rep. Andy Schwartz, D-Jackson, announced he would not run for reelection. That support included her husband, Luther Propst, current chair of the Teton County Board of County Commissioners.

Storer cited many reasons for wanting to run, from infringement on women’s reproductive rights to wanting to diversify and make the current property tax-dependent structure more progressive in the wake of hardworking families leaving the state.

The lawmaker also acknowledged circumstances that made the decision to run for office easier. She didn’t have children to raise and did have a dedicated staff that could take the reins at the foundation, allowing her to drive hundreds of miles for com-

she said. “If you have another job, like I do, it means you have two jobs.”

While Storer is just coming off her freshman year, she has many goals in her political career. One of those, she said, is to be a strong voice for women when advocating at the mic or making deals with her colleagues, delivering convincing arguments like the women from whom she is descended.

“I think creating a greater balance is hugely important both on gender, and then along the political continuum,” she said. “We all benefit when we have adult conversations and disagree and come up with what’s a reasonable compromise.

And frankly, that’s the art of being a legislator.”

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Lundvall reaches for new dreams after accident A Park County woman spun her grave injury into a life of pioneering outdoor access and shattering barriers.

By Katie Klingsporn / WyoFile.com PARK COUNTY — Puddles dot the dirt road that leads to the 20-acre property Ashlee Lundvall shares with her husband, daughter and animals.

Though the day is cloudy, the Absaroka Mountains are visible in the distance.

These are the very mountains that ensnared Lundvall’s heart as a child.

Her family drove west from Indiana on a road trip one summer, swinging through Cody. Lundvall was smitten.

“I felt like I was home,” she said. “I remember telling my parents, ‘I will eventually live here.’”

That much came true. But everything else Lundvall thought she knew about her future self would be upended by a fateful accident when she was a teenager.

When she shattered her body 24 years ago, everything changed. Doctors warned her that bad health outcomes would likely follow. However, that’s not what happened.

“To me, every time now that I hit another year, it’s a celebration of how far I’ve come and just the great opportunities I’ve been given and the fact that I’m still here and still really healthy and happy and just loving life,” said Lundvall, sitting at the kitchen island that’s been custom-built to match her height in a wheelchair.

This unexpected interpretation is exemplary of Lundvall’s outlook. The accident prompted her to redefine her expectations, get creative and de-

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Ashlee Lundvall at her home outside Powell, where her family keeps horses, a dog, cat, chickens and goats.

vise ways to do the things she wants.

Lundvall is an avid hunter, active outdoorswoman and devoted mom. She has explored backcountry landscapes, advocated for accessibility in the outdoors and written a book. The busy volunteer has mentored new hunters and served on the President’s Council on Sports, Fitness and Nutrition. In Wyoming, Lundvall is currently the lone woman on the Game and Fish Commission.

Fellow commissioner Ken Roberts has great admiration for her.

“She is a warrior,” he said. “If people had one ounce of the courage that that lady has, the world would be a better place.”

Lundvall credits her ability to accept what life throws at you and adapt.

Her own path was long and windy, she said, but it’s shown her that “if you are

brave enough to redefine your life, that will really open up some amazing opportunities for you.”

A fateful morning Not long after that family road trip, a teenaged Lundvall had the opportunity to spend two weeks at a Codyarea ranch through a ministry program. She rode horses, mucked stalls and backpacked. Lundvall, who has large blue eyes and is quick to joke, said much of the program was cleverly disguised child labor, but “I absolutely loved it.”

Lundvall worked to save money for a second trip. She returned in 1999 at age 16 and fell back into the routine of ranch life.

She woke early one day and headed to the corrals. She climbed into a hayloft to pitch food to the cattle, and a

flake of hay got caught on a bale. She reached to unlodge it with her pitchfork, but lost her balance.

It’s natural to comb over the details of an accident, obsess over the placement and timing of events and dwell on what may have been. Lundvall’s account went like this: When she realized she was falling from the loft, she tossed the pitchfork. Then she hit her head on the edge of the hayrack, and the momentum swung her body out so that she landed crossways on the pitchfork’s wooden handle.

The impact caused a blowout fracture of her T-12 vertebra, severely damaged her spinal cord and tore tendons and muscles away from her spine.

When she came to, she couldn’t move her legs.

“I was just going to have to constantly be redefining things. And that’s not easy.”

Despite two major surgeries and intensive therapy, the spinal cord damage was irreversible.

The 6-foot-tall athlete who understood life largely through her physical body — playing basketball, riding horses, running and jumping — now viewed it from a wheelchair.

Hard lessons Today, Lundvall makes it look natural to adjust to life’s punches. But it was a painful adjustment, she said.

When she returned to Indiana, she struggled with severe health setbacks.

Familiar faces reminded her of the life she no longer lived. Reality set in as she was unable to master walking with braces. It was brutal. She grew apathetic, losing her appetite. A pastor’s daughter, Lundvall leaned into her faith to help her through.

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Whole Picture Suzy Kellems Dominik interrogates her own — and other women’s — experiences.

By Billy Arnold

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nspiration for one of Suzy Kellems Dominik’s most colorful pieces — a 5-foot-4-inch neon vulva — struck as she spun around a Jackson Hole dance floor with a friend’s brother-in-law.

“A dance was just a dance,” Kellems Dominik said. “No correlation.”

Still, the dance, no matter how platonic, was an “aha” moment for the female-forward artist who draws inspiration from Renaissance painters and sculptors, and thinks of the advent of social media in 2008 as akin to the Protestant revolution. Kellems Dominik described that evening as a “Frank Lloyd Wright” place in time, a reference to the famous architect’s style of creating tension by requiring people to pass through deliberately compressing features — like doorways or porches — before reaching a larger room, where they can expand.

“I was condensed,” Kellems Dominik said. The party, and the dance allowed her to expand — and feel joy.

Kellems Dominik has lived on a ranch in the Gros Ventre Range for about 20 years. She recently converted the old Four Wheel auto parts store on the corner of Mercill and Cache into her studio, and invited visitors in during this year’s Fall Arts Festival. For the past decade that Kellems Dominik has worked as an artist, she’s channeled parts of her experience in Jackson into work that interrogates what it means to be a woman in today’s world — and occasionally done so on a national stage. But the rugged backdrop of the Gros Ventres has also provided inspiration for some of her less public but still intensely critical projects.

In 2017, Kellems Dominik channeled the joy dancing with her friend’s brother-in-law into “I Can Feel,” the neon vagina and firework display that was shown and repeatedly Instagrammed at 2017’s Art Basel Miami Beach, a massive annual modern art festival. The piece quickly became tied to the #MeToo movement, which happened as women publicly accused Harvey Weinstein and other men of sexual predation and assault.

That wasn’t Kellems Dominik’s intention. She set out to create “I Can Feel” as a celebration, both of her personal journey and of the fact that art like that could be shown at all.

“It was work of affirmation, of gathering back my own spirit, knowing that I was going to survive, I was going to survive some things I’ve been through,” Kellems Dominik said. “And it was this moment of, just, joy.”

But #MeToo was not a celebration and at times, Kellems Dominik found herself defending the piece from people who wanted to make it a symbol of the movement. It wasn’t like she disagreed with #MeToo, but rather that she was trying to find her art’s place in and alongside the larger conversation.

One of her first pieces, “Bear Attack” reimagined instructions for dealing with bears in Grand Teton National Park to apply to women dealing with men: “Be Alert,” “Make Noise,” “Carry Bear Spray,” “Avoid Hiking Alone,”

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Artist Suzy Kellems Dominik and her most recent work “Objectify.”

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Kellems Dominik’s “I Can Feel” project — an exuberant neon display with a 5-foot-4-inch vulva at its center — was intended as a celebration of joy, and inspired by an experience Kellems Dominik had in Jackson. It came out at the height of the #MeToo movement, complicating the story Kellems Dominik sought to tell with her work, but bringing the artist’s work into a national spotlight.

Kellems Dominik’s “Objectify” includes two parts: photography and sculpture. The sculpture is intended to take “objectification” to its logical conclusion — turning someone into an object.

“Do Not Run.” She felt like society had given men latitude to behave badly, while telling women “If you’re not affirmed, then you don’t exist” — an idea she wanted to turn on its head with the self-affirmation of “I Can Feel.”

So, she approached the conversation from a “Yes, and” perspective. Kellems Dominik realized victims who were coming forward may have been experiencing a parallel catharsis of their own.

“I had to get there through what I went through,” she said of “I Can Feel.”

“And they were now going through that

But it’s taken different shapes. When she opened her doors to the public this fall, she displayed images and sculptures from a new project aptly named “Objectify.” From the outside looking in — as walkers can sometimes do to Kellems Dominik’s studio — the piece looks like a collection of photographs of a man in bondage in the woods.

And that’s because it is.

But Kellems Dominik wasn’t trying to make her muse, who she referred to only as “Patrick,” less than when she tied him up. The idea for the exhibit

to find their own self-determination and an ability to not only survive, but thrive.”

But the piece was also one of Kellems Dominik’s first explorations of objectification, the act of degrading someone into an object. The artist sought to flip that idea on its head.

“I objectified myself as the 5-foot-4 vulva at the center of the piece,” she said.

The sculpture also pulsed and lit up for 27.68 seconds. Kellems Dominik told Elle that represents “a fantasy orgasm.”

In the years since, Kellems Dominik’s focus on objectification hasn’t waned.

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Kellems Dominik’s “Bear Attack” asks what the difference is, if any, between instructions for dealing with bears and with predatory men. “I don’t hate men,” Kellems Dominik said. “I don’t think they’re all dangerous. I think some people are.”

came when she was in a museum in whole,” she said. “My idea of who you Paris, at an art exhibit that was sup- could be, who a person could be, is far posed to be female-driven, or at least more elastic than what I imagine the have parity between men and women male gaze on a woman to be.”

That was a watershed moment for artists. But the first exhibit she saw was a collection of photography that her. “That’s a higher ideal of what fantasized and diminished women for engaged sexuality can be,” Kellems Dominik said. one man’s sexual desire.

But “Objectify” is also as serious as it “I was there with my goddaughter and I just, in real time, started crying,” is playful. Thinking about the meaning of the word “objectification,” Kellems she said. “I was done with it.”

Kellems Dominik wrote a poem on Dominik took the concept to its logical extreme: Turnthe spot — she ing someone into starts each artan object. She’s work with a poem now used Patrick’s — and set out to form, cast in the create a work of style of a Greek art that representsculpture, as the ed what objectifibase for tables, cation means from chairs and even a a female point of bar. view, or at least “I do like a hers. good bar,” Kellems So, she took Patrick out into — Suzy Kellems Dominik Dominik said. the Gros Ventre, As a former ARTIST and tied him up member of the lightly with a piece United States’ of cloth she specifically designed for the national gymnastics team, Kellems shoot: Cloth with an eye and vulva, in- Dominik said she has always been cutended to literally depict the female rious, always unafraid, and always “ungaze. afraid of falling down.” Now, she’s creThen, she had Patrick pose. And she ating art that she knows will inspire nixed any full frontal nudity. debate, including from another feminist “What I find engaging about anoth- artist who told her “Objectify” is not er person is their wholeness,” she said. what women want to gaze on. In re“This heroicized version of this being, of sponse, Kellems Dominik said she feels making them more whole, which I find like women have been told they don’t more interesting than diminishment.” have the right to look at something like As a woman, Kellems Dominik said “Objectify,” and don’t have the right to she can’t say exactly how men think of say “I find this important, I engage with women, or how men gaze on women. this.”

But she paints the photography work as Kellems Dominik welcomes the dethe opposite of what she saw in Paris. bates.

Wholeness, she feels, is also more sexual “My goal is to express to the widest or sensual than zeroing in on an indi- audience themes that are about me, vidual physical feature, or attribute. but that have an innate spot left for At the end of the shoot, Kellems them to make it their own,” she said.

Dominik gave Patrick the option of how “They can then take it home with them to pose. He jumped into the sky, and and think about it.” she saw Patrick becoming “more of who he was” under her gaze.

Contact Billy Arnold at 307-732-7063 “Because I wanted him to be more or barnold@jhnewsandguide.com.

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Artist Suzy Kellems Dominik created this fabric poem for her new series of work. It includes flowers, words and depictions of female anatomy.

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Outdated perceptions persist in fine art space Teton creatives and gallery owners push to create community and heighten recognition of female artists.

By Tibby Plasse Can you name the most famous female artist of the 19th century?

When Kathryn Mapes Turner asks people to name five famous women artists, most people can’t do it. They may be able to mention Frida Kahlo and Georgia O’Keeffe, but they hardly ever get to a third artist, the gallery owner and artist said.

“The reason that we can’t list more than five famous women artists is because women haven’t had the same opportunities in the arts,” Turner said. “The university I attended didn’t even accept women until the ’70s.”

Turner grew up in Jackson and originally pursued a track teaching art rather than creating it. But the desire to paint won out.

“Then, I was in Washington, D.C., and I would go into the Smithsonian all the time, and I was surrounded by a bunch of men,” she said. “I wasn’t really conscious of it, because I would go in to admire Rembrandts, but looking back, I didn’t see a Mary Cassatt.”

Art advisor and longtime Jackson resident Shari Brownfield backs up Turner’s observations, pointing out that the seminal text “Janson’s History of Art” had one female artist in its first and subsequent printings.

“I think that was in the ’60s, and then its most recent iteration — and this is like a giant tome you would have on your coffee table — I believe 46 artists are women out of 1,200 pages, which means there could be 1,000 male artists in there,” she said.

Janson, like many across disciplines, didn’t believe there were female artists worthy of consideration, a prejudice he maintained until he died in 1982. The 2006 revision kept Janson’s name in the title but displaced the original author’s view by including women, as well as other disciplines, like photography and functional pieces from the Arts and Crafts movement.

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Womentum participants hobnob at Shari Brownfield Fine Art, which until Nov. 27 is featuring a show by female artists called “No Man’s Land.”

That dated perspective has kept female artists out of collections, and Turner said she still observes that view in the exclusion of female artists in high-dollar auctions.

“It’s a trickle-down effect,” Turner said. “If people see no famous women in museums, then there’s no women in these high-dollar auctions either.”

An article published on ArtNet claimed that more than $196.6 billion was spent on art at auction between 2008 and the first half of 2019. Work made by

women accounts for just $4 billion, around 2%. That’s estimated to be a doubling of what was spent in the previous decade.

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For pedestrians floating about town, the low statistics might seem ridiculous given the local art culture and the women-owned galleries — Tayloe Piggott Gallery, Diehl Gallery, Horizon Fine Art, Turner Fine Art, Ringholz Studios, Gallery Wild and newcomer J Watson Fine Art — not to mention Teton Valley, Idaho’s Foxtrot and Tribe Artist Collective.

“But there’s a women’s section in the paper for a reason,” Brownfield said.

According to the National Museum of Women’s Art, which reopened this October, just 11% of all acquisitions and 14% of exhibitions at 26 prominent U.S. museums over the past decade were work by female artists.

Wyoming formed its first committee for the nomination of state artists to the National Museum of Women’s Art last year. The five nominated artists presented in Cody and Laramie this summer. Brownfield is planning to host an exhibit this spring with the nominees: Teton locals Katy Ann Fox and Bronwyn Minton; Leah Hardy, of Laramie; Sarah Ortegon, from the Wind River Reservation; and Jennifer Rife, from Cheyenne. The Wyoming committee had a large contingency from Teton County and included Brownfield, Kristen Broeder, Lindsay Linton Buk, the late Lisa Claudy Fleischman, Carrie Geraci and Pamela Gibson.

Brownfield’s current show, “No Man’s Land” is not a direct response to that statistic, but the art advisor is passionate about bringing more recognition to more women artists. The show brings together works by 21 female artists, from the 1950s to the present day.

Tammi Hanawalt at the National Museum of Wildlife also curated an all-women’s art show at the museum

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Kathryn Mapes Turner, seen here at the 2022 Fall Arts Festival QuickDraw, said that even these days she notices an absence of women artists in high-dollar auctions.

in 2022 titled “Bonheur and Beyond: Celebrating Women in Wildlife Art.” “In the 1980s women were first acknowledged in the textbook as artists,” Hanawalt said. “That’s not a very long time. There’s a lot of catching up to do.”

Hanawalt’s field of research is in Native American art. The curator said she does see more women represented in that area, as much of it is folk or craft art.

“We have far fewer female artists represented in our collection than we

do male artists, but in the collection there are amazing artists like Anna Hyatt Huntington, a historical female artist and American sculptor. And then we just acquired Jhenna Quinn Lewis this year,” Hanawalt said.

When asked what female artist people should seek out, Turner immediately thinks of Rosa Bonheur’s painting, “The Horse Fair” at the Metropolitan Museum of Art. “That painting should be as wellknown as the ‘Last Supper,’” she said.

But if you can’t get to New York to appreciate the massive canvas and technical aptitude of the most famous female painter of the 19th century, who wore pants instead of dresses, you can see six of Bonheur’s pieces in the permanent collection of the National Museum of Wildlife Art, including “King of the Forest,” “Chamois Mother and Baby” and “Tiger.”

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Lundvall had always intended to be an orthopedic surgeon, and she forged on with that plan after graduating from high school. But as a pre-med biology major, she said, “I got slapped in the face everywhere I turned with the realization of what my life was now.”

Leg tremors caused her body to shake, for example, and surgical sanitation involving a wheelchair was an ordeal.

Eventually, she said, “what I realized was — and this was definitely a process — that it takes more courage to let go of old dreams that you don’t recognize anymore so that you can move on to new dreams. And that’s what happened to me.

“And so that was probably the first time where I realized that I was going to have to redefine everything.”

It wasn’t the last time, she said. “I was just going to have to constantly be redefining things. If I wanted to find joy and find peace and be happy and have success in my life, I was gonna have to be flexible in that way. And it’s not easy.”

Another thing she’s realized, she said, is that these kinds of “pitchfork moments” are universal.

“I don’t think that necessarily has anything to do with my disability, that’s just how life goes,” she said.

Friend Beth Worthen marvels at Lundvall’s way of framing things.

“Ashlee’s perpetually positive about life,” Worthen said.

Outdoor epiphanies Lundvall switched her focus and ultimately earned a master’s in biblical counseling. She learned how to drive a hand-controlled vehicle and found a wheelchair-accessible apartment.

Despite self-doubts, she met someone.

Russ Lundvall, a Cody native, knew without asking how to unfold her wheelchair — his father uses a wheel-

Lundvall following a successful antelope hunt.

chair because of multiple sclerosis.

They married in 2006 and moved to Wyoming a year later.

Living in a landscape largely bereft of pavement initially spurred fear about not being able to get out and enjoy it, she said. “But it actually did just the opposite.”

Between her husband’s love of outdoor activities and her own competitive instinct that “oooh people think I can’t, so I’m going to see if I can,” she started to venture out. Soon the couple went four-wheeling all over the moun-

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tains. “The next thing I knew, that was my legs,” she said.

That led to fishing, kayaking and hand-cycling. She became involved in a disabled hunting group. Though not initially interesting in hunting, she ended up on a deer hunt with a borrowed crossbow, and she harvested an animal. “I just absolutely fell in love with it,” she said.

“The outdoors became my new competition, in a sense, against myself,” she said. “And against the boundaries that I kept running into, and having

to figure out how to get around and things like that.”

In the early days, people helped push and drag her chair across all kinds of rugged terrain. Her first bull elk hunt entailed a gamut of “extreme wheelchairing” tactics and ended with Lundvall shooting a six-point bull at more than 500 yards away. As time went on, she gained access to adaptive tools, including a burly machine called an Action Trackchair that can access terrain she wouldn’t have dreamed of, and will even stand her up.

The more time she spent outdoors, she said, “it became really healing for me. And so then it just made sense to want to do whatever I could to share that with other people.”

Lundvall became an ambassador, writing columns, representing brands, acting as spokesperson for the Outdoor Ability Foundation and sitting on the NRA Disabled Shooting Sports Committee. She co-hosted a show called “Able Outdoors.” She was also crowned Ms. Wheelchair USA, which gave her a whole new platform to advocate for better accessibility in the outdoors.

She volunteers for Wyoming Women’s Foundation, which puts on the Wyoming Women’s Antelope Hunt.

She has mentored hunters and serves on the planning committee. During the hunt, she can most often be found at the “meat pole” — where hunters bring their harvest for dressing and processing.

Fellow volunteer Worthen, who shares the coveted meat pole position with Lundvall, enjoys spending the hours with her. “She always has been a leader as a woman in Wyoming, and so I am always excited to hear where that’s taking her.”

What’s really moving, Worthen said, is watching Lundvall mentor other hunters, including young and disabled hunters.

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Lundvall has continued to evolve through the years. She gave birth to her daughter in 2010 — which she said required a whole new level of bravery.

She helped facilitate Wyoming’s first all-inclusive playground, in Cody. She traveled doing inspirational speaking.

Gov. Mark Gordon appointed her to the Game and Fish Commission in 2021, where she got a crash course in the regulatory side of wildlife.

She is a diligent commissioner who brings important perspectives to the board that might not be fully considered otherwise, Roberts said. “She can relate to disabilities, and she can relate to ladies and she can relate to kids.”

Lundvall also serves on the board of First Lady Jenny Gordon’s Wyoming Hunger Initiative. Lundvall is supremely organized, dependable and thorough, Jenny Gordon said.

“She’s been invaluable in the skills she brings,” Gordon said. “She’s all-in when she’s on a board.”

Rolling around her property near Powell, Lundvall points to her pygmy goats, chickens, cat and a large horse named King. She’s been trying for two years to figure out an adaptive saddle situation so she can ride him.

It’s an example of how she’s constantly trying to devise ways to still be active outdoors. It doesn’t always go well.

“I think people sometimes get this idea in their head that I’m out and doing everything I want to,” she said.

“There are multiple things I’ve tried that I literally fell flat on my face.”

The point, she said, is to not sit back and be passive.

Many people may not want to return to the scene of a traumatic event.

But her accident did not diminish Lundvall’s love for Wyoming.

“Strangely enough, I think I probably love it more now,” Lundvall said.

“Wyoming has really been the place where, you know, I got to do all the things I never thought I would have been able to do … so really life kind of started here, where a lot of people might think it ended.”

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Acquaintances also note that Lundvall has a way of defusing the awkwardness that can ensue when people are unsure of how to act around someone with a disability. Part of that is her sense of humor.

“She’s really approachable and personable, and I think she just makes other people feel comfortable around her,” Wyoming Women’s Foundation Director Rebekah Smith Hazelton said.

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Most recently, Lundvall has taken the mentoring role into her professional life as head of school at Veritas Academy, a private Christian school in Cody.

“She’s always looking for ways to make her community better and make our state better,” Gordon said.

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Fox, 44, took the helm of Women- to a $350 fee, with other scholarships “Women want to be industry dis- way,” she said. tum two months ago. The organiza- available.

When First Republic was acquired rupters when the existing systems tion is tasked with developing its Fox is the organization’s first ex- do not work for them or even work by JP Morgan this past spring, Fox brand as a gendered nonprofit at a ecutive director who will work full against them,” Fox said. “The highest took a leap deeper into nonprofits. time when conversations about gen- time at 40 hours a week. She will be office in the country has yet to be ocShe was no stranger to boards: der seem increasingly polarized and joined by the first full-time program cupied by a woman.”

She’d been a longtime volunteer politicized. director.

Fox herself does not have kids and for Habitat for Humanity and had Many progressives argued that “That’s really going to allow us to has lived with her husband, Phillip, served on the Astoria Park Conserthe Supreme vancy board from dream a little bit in Victor, Idaho, Court’s over2018 to 2022 and bigger,” she said. since 2005. In turning of Roe v. on the board of While not in some ways she Wade in summer the Community a spot to say ex- has been a leader 2022 was inexCounseling Cenactly what that since she was a tricably linked ter since 2015. future program- child, the oldest to an assault on After her yearming would look of four kids with women’s rights. and-a-half tenlike, Fox stressed three younger In early 2023 the ure on the board that Womentum brothers.

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oday’s women athletes would have been unrecognizable to people living at the beginning of the 20th century.

At the height of the Victorian era, women were discouraged from engaging in strenuous activities.

A commonly held belief was that women had a finite amount of energy in their bodies, and using it to pursue rigorous sport or higher education would lead to weak offspring, not to mention making them less attractive to men. Fortunately, those views are long gone.

Today’s female athletes perform at extraordinarily high levels. They are muscled and strong. They execute difficult physical feats with grace and aplomb. And they still manage to have Molly Absolon strong babies. Despite this, in many sports, women receive less pay, exposure and respect than their male counterparts.

Wondering why this discrepancy continues, I started surfing the internet and was shocked at some of the misogynistic rants I uncovered. Anonymous posters felt free to denigrate female athletes, saying they deserve less pay because they perform at a lower level than men, they attract smaller audiences, and their level of competition is less intense. The bottom line in this reasoning seemed to be that because elite men will (almost) always beat elite women, competition between men is the apex of any sport. Male athletes are the gold standard and therefore deserve the most attention, acclaim, money and respect. Granted, these viewpoints may be the extreme, but unfortunately the reality of women’s sports seems to lend them some credence.

There are sports where men and women compete against each other equally. Equestrian events, dog sledding, climbing, and ultra-endurance cycling and swimming are some examples of sports where women often outperform men. But in events that involve physical feats of strength and speed, the general consensus is that male bodies have an advantage over female bodies.

For example, Olympic, World and U.S. Champion sprinter Tori Bowie’s 100-meter lifetime best of 10.78

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seconds was beaten 15,000 times by men in 2017. Allyson Felix — another Olympic, World and U.S. champion runner — has a personal best of 49.26 in the 400 meters. That time was also bested by men 15,000 times in 2017.

Testosterone is key to these differences. The lowest end of the range for normal male testosterone levels is three times that of the high end for females. These differences come into play in puberty, when boys begin to grow taller and accumulate more muscle mass than females. Physically, these changes translate into running faster, jumping higher and acquiring more strength and power.

But does more speed, power and strength equate to better sport? Just because 15,000 men ran faster than

Torie Bowie, does that make her performance less exciting? Just because Serena Williams lost a match against a 203-ranked male player, does that make her play against other women less impressive and entertaining to watch? Does the fact that women lose to men in most head-to-head competition make women’s sports any less valid? I don’t think so.

In 2012, skier Lindsey Vonn said she wanted to race against men. Her goal was not to win but to see if she could break into the top 30. At the time she said she wanted to discuss her career without the label of woman in front of it. That statement seemed to denigrate not only herself but also the women she raced against. Her need to compare herself against the men See MOUNTAINSIDE on 23E

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for 30 years in Jackson Hole, now with Wyoming Angling Company.

Some have even found that the rarity of women creates something of its own market.

In 1994, Christy Ball and Lori-Ann Murphy started Reel Women Fly Fishing Adventures, a Victor, Idaho, business offering lessons, trips and a guide school for women. Pope said she’s had clients seek her out specifically for her gender, or come out with her only after learning their guide was a girl.

Yannelli has similarly seen requests swing the opposite direction, even in the last four years. Instead of requests not to have female guides, she now fields calls now from people who see her on the website and are eager to get in touch.

Fishing media should do a better job of showing women in ads, Yannelli said, just to boost baseline visibility.

There’s a fine line, Pope said, with media that highlights female fishers, and media that takes advantage of the female fisher’s rarity without doing research.

It’s irksome to see ad campaigns with women who are holding their rods incorrectly, clearly filler. Only recently has Pope started to see fishing gear that’s adopted the same color scheme and designs as their male counterparts. Yannelli said she still struggles to find clothes that fit.

Female guides might be more likely to get media attention than equally hardworking men, Pope added, showing some ambivalence. But if it gets other women on the water, she’ll take what she can get.

More people means more attention on the sport and more conservation efforts.

“My God, that’s all I want,” Pope said.

Extra attention doesn’t always translate to more women in the positions that pay.

Pope says she has observed a culture of bravado that makes fishing out to be more complicated than it really is. Her demeanor as a guide is calm and encouraging, but persistent. She’s quick to simplify but eager to get wonky with experienced clients.

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muscles,” she says to near beginners. “We’re just keeping it super simple. Picking up the fly rod and putting it back down.”

When Pope was hired at Snake River Angler in 2022 the company hadn’t had a female guide in three years.

The company was hyped to have her, Broeder said.

More women on the river means more people on the river, elevating guide quality and the industry writ large, said Wyoming Angling Company’s Bruun.

“I’m more hopeful that we’re on the upslope of hiring guides that are skilled, knowledgeable and capable,” she said. “You don’t want to just hire somebody

because they’re a girl. You don’t want to just hire a guy because he’s got a dirty hat and a pickup and says he fishes.”

Bruun talks in neutral terms about a guiding world where men and women both want to be seen as “individual and as professional.”

If that remains the case at the end of Pope’s career, the strangest thing about her at the boat ramp might be the matching green life vests she keeps aboard her vessel.

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LOOKING BACK 45 years ago ...

• Trustees of St. John’s Hospital voted to adopt a restrictive abortion policy that would forbid the procedure unless the life of the mother was in danger. Those in favor felt a previously recommended policy of allowing abortion if continuing the pregnancy would adversely affect the health of the mother or fetus might result in abortion on demand.

• Van Vleck House sponsored a series of seminars for high school girls called “Tips on Looking and Feeling Good.” Topics included hair care, makeup, poise, nail care, relaxation, and diet and exercise.

• Women in Jackson Hole who were subject to domestic abuse were reflecting a nationwide move to come into the open, the Jackson Hole News reported. “The women who previously thought that these beatings were either normal, deserved, or too shameful to admit, are now openly asking for help for something they have realized is very wrong.”

• The last surviving member of Jackson’s all-woman Town Council from the 1920s, Rose Crabtree, 95, died in Indianola, Nebraska. She ran the Crabtree Hotel in Jackson for more than half a century.

30 years ago ...

• Pregnant women in Teton and Sublette counties who needed financial assistance for prenatal care had a new program to call on: Best Beginnings for Wyoming Babies, funded with an $80,000 grant from the Wyoming Department of Health.

• As a member of the U.S. Defense Department’s advisory committee on women in the services, Mary Kay

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Legislature. Police had little power to act on complaints about stalking. The proposed law would allow victims to obtain a protective order that cops could enforce.

• Sharon Moyer led a vigil on the Town Square to mark World AIDS Day. There were eight reported cases of AIDS in Teton County and four reported cases of HIV, the virus that causes AIDS. At the time, AIDS had claimed more than 200,000 American lives. “It’s running rampant in this country, and it touches people very deeply,” said Moyer, who ran an AIDS and HIV support group in Jackson.

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• Of the record 521 babies born at St. John’s Medical Center in the previous year, 272 were girls.

• About 100 people from across the state attended a “Whispers of Hope” Silent Witness ceremony in Jackson to honor victims of domestic abuse.

• In Teton County 50 to 60 people had gained citizenship since the last major election. They included Colombia native Pati Rocha, the Latino outreach coordinator at Teton County Library, who was working with the library and the Equality State Policy Center to educate Jackson Hole’s Spanish-speaking population about the election and voting. “’It’s important to learn the basics of the U.S. voting system in order to responsibly participate in elections,” she said.

• Physicians balked at a proposal for group prenatal care for women with no health insurance. Terri Gregory of Teton County Public Health estimated it would help about 80 women a year.

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• The Latina Leadership group at Jackson Hole High School partnered with the Global Connections club to put on a Black and White Dance that raised $2,500 to help Latino students without health insurance pay medical bills. The leadership had started a year earlier with 13 Latinas and now had 30 members.

• A new blind reporting process implemented by St. John’s Medical Center and the Community Safety Network gave rape victims more time to decide whether to report the crime to cops. Previously, nurse examiners didn’t collect forensic evidence from women who didn’t want to report a rape. Now nurses could collect physical evidence from victims who didn’t immediately want to make a report.

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• Wyoming hosted the inaugural Women’s Conference on Sustainability in Jackson. It was co-hosted

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• After at least three instances when a woman was asked to stop breastfeeding in a public building in recent years, the Teton County Board of County Commissioners adopted a policy that “a woman has a right to breastfeed in any county public facility.” That policy had been implied but not expressly stated.

• An Idaho Falls-based doctor began offering OB/GYN services in the Victor/Driggs area, filling a void created after Teton Valley (Idaho) Hospital cut obstetrics services to save money.

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to determine her value as an athlete implied women weren’t good enough.

Women are good enough in my mind.

Every year, they continue to up their level of skill and performance. In my lifetime alone, the changes in women’s athletics have been mind blowing. And yet men have also upped their skill and performance.

“Sex differences between the world’s best athletes in most events have remained relatively stable at approximately 8 to 12 percent,” Oyvind Sandbakk, the managing director of the Centre for Elite Sports Research at Norwegian University of Science and Technology, told Healthline.com in 2017.

This consistent gap seems to me to be a good reason to continue to separate the sexes when it comes to most athletic competition. Separation gives women and girls the opportunity to win against people of similar ability and skill. Its absence, on the other hand, could, deter women from competing. No one wants to lose all the time. (I am not going into the issue of transgender or nonbinary athletes in this column. That’s a separate topic.)

Unfortunately, while the separation of the sexes allows for more equal competition, it has not made for more equal treatment. Many women athletes continue to receive less money, exposure and respect than their male counterparts, despite performing at high levels.

For example, the U.S. women’s soccer team has historically been much more successful than the U.S. men, and yet in 2023 they made 25 cents on every dollar made by the male players. That was an improvement from the 8 cents on the dollar they earned in 2019, but still a dramatic difference in pay, especially in light of the women’s track record.

The U.S. men, who made it only to the 16th round at the World Cup in Qatar in 2022., were awarded $13 million in prize money. Had the U.S. women won

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the World Cup this year they would have been awarded $10.5 million.

With soccer in the United States you can’t even argue that viewership is higher for the men than women, so they deserve more pay. Twentytwo percent more people watched the 2019 Women’s World Cup Final than watched the 2018 men’s final. Women’s tennis, skiing and gymnastics also draw huge crowds, particularly with superstars like Serena Williams, Mikaela Shiffrin and Simone Biles. Other sports could be as popular — or grow to be as popular — if sponsors and networks showed female athletes the same respect they show the men.

Serena Williams once said that you shouldn’t compare men and women’s tennis. According to her, they are two different games. I’d argue the same is true for many sports and that difference does not make one better than the other. It just makes them different.

Unfortunately, for many sports it can take effort to see women in action. Female athletics in general don’t get the same kind of marketing and exposure that male sports get, which leads to lower attendance at sporting events, lower merchandise sales and lower televised viewership. It’s a vicious cycle. Marketing generates attention, which generates interest and followership, which generates money and respect.

It’s impressive how far women’s sports have come. It’s been just 51 years since Title IX passed, granting women and girls equal access to sport in schools. When I was in junior high school the only athletic teams available for girls were basketball and track and field. The boys could choose to play football, baseball and basketball, wrestle or run track and field. I imagine most young girls today would be shocked at that inequity. So, things are definitely better, but we’re not there yet.

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