Baseball Ontario use to hold an annual women's clinic, we were instructed by the top course conductors in the province and spent an entire grueling weekend each year being trained and taught. I owe my umpire career (on field and instructing) to these clinics as do the majority of the female umpires in Ontario. If I remember correctly, they ran for at least six years. The intent of the province was to foster women in umpiring and provide them with the necessary training to be considered as equal as their male counterparts. In turn, these women could 'give back' to Baseball Ontario by representing the province at National and International tournaments, as well as some becoming instructors in the umpire development program. The clinics were very well organized and fairly inexpensive for the attendees (because Baseball Ontario invested most of the cost). Here's a link to the OBA umpire site, http://www.baseballontario.com/Umpires/
It use to have info on the women's program and pictures from the clinics but they've been recently taken off. Having said all this .... it might be an idea to contact one of the umpire development committee members to see if they have information on running a women's clinic, ups and downs, work involved, costs etc.

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