Park City has a Sunday Women's program but they have early registration for certain groups and it sells out weeks before regular registration.
I do find some this with some women's programmes.
There is a mountaineering school in Scotland that provides courses and tuition in all aspects of mountaineering, including ski mountaineering. Each year, they hold a two-day "Wild Ski" festival during a March weekend, where they have workshops and guided/instructed groups you can join during the day, and then lectures, socials, films and so on during the evenings.
For the day time activites, they have three self-selecting groups, "Discover" for people new to ski touring, "Adventure" for people who are somewhat comfortable with ski touring and primarily want to go exploring, but are not averse to some guidance along the way, and another one that I forget the name of for people who want to go and ski big couloirs. There are options for womens' groups and for mixed groups. All evening activities are fully integrated.
The problems I have with the way it's set up are:
- The women's groups are early sign-up. Blink and you miss it. The mixed groups are open for registration much longer
- There is a women's Discover group and a women's Adventure group, but no women's advanced group
- The official photographer tends to follow the advanced group and the mixed Adventure group around, and therefore tends to capture proportionally fewer women. The only woman routinely photographed is one of the guides, who happens to be a well-known freeride athlete
- Women joining the mixed groups are sometimes made to feel like they are letting the side down because they didn't join the women's groups
I've joined the women's groups for a couple of years. It's great to meet a like-minded bunch of women, and ski with some extremely inspirational female instructors and guides (and other attendees). However, I'm increasingly feeling like this set-up is not promoting equality in the sport the way it should be because of the problems highlighted above.
This year, I missed the early registration for the women's groups (because I was skiing in Chamonix!), so I'm joining a mixed group instead. I'll be interested to see how it compares.
While I'm not averse to women's events - in fact I regularly attend women's rock climbing events - I feel like in this specific case, it would work better to have a completely separate women's event, rather than trying to combine it with the mixed event. However, on the other hand, I can't deny that they probably get more women signing up than they would if they didn't have women's groups.
Anyway, sorry, that was a bit off-topic, but I do wonder if these sorts of issues play into this discussion, in addition to the more obvious inequalities highlighted by others like not having adult classes that fit around children's classes.