Ski jumper Jessica Jerome. Photographs by Mia Tran. The free-flowing rum drinks helped you handle the many incongruities earlier this week on the third floor of Norwood, a private club in downtown New York City, but disparities were still pretty acute. In the main party room were numerous socialites (male and female), two expert ski jumpers, members of the art scene, and Rachel Dratch, of Saturday Night Live, while in a small side room (what the townhouse’s 19th-century floorplan would call the nursery, I think) a television crew for Telemundo had tucked itself. On and near the bar lay large platters of cubed cheese, dried apricots, pickles, and a ring of sunflower sprouts and prunes. The biggest puzzle of the evening, however, was the party’s official focus: why elite female ski-jumpers have been prevented from competing, as men do, in the winter Olympics, including those to be held next year in Vancouver, Canada. The party was thrown to draw attention to the inequity and the women’s attempts to overcome it, and to Fighting Gravity, a documentary on the subject directed by Alex Mar and executive produced by Virginia Madsen. (The film is still in production.)

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