Hello all, and thank you again for your wonderful, generous help in this thread!
Reporting from the end of the season I can say that the clinics we offered were severely under-attended due to frustratingly anemic marketing by the resort. There never seemed to be any interest in developing a promotional strategy by either the marketing department or the mountain management, which was a bummer, because they were really great clinics. I hope they run next year with more robust promotion and encourage anyone in the northeast to seek out the program.
The women who did manage to find us, though, reported that the clinics provided excellent instruction and great value. The S6 ski school has truly fantastic instructors who were eager to participate in the women's program, and from my perspective, it was a privilege to be on the snow with them.
Our last clinic was taught by a male instructor due to our female staff being battered by illness. I spoke with the participants ahead of time to make sure everyone was ok with that decision, explaining that given the situation, we wanted to err on the side of quality instruction (not that the women on hand were not excellent, but they tended to specialize in children's instruction and weren't really the best fit for the group). Everyone seemed ok with the male instructor, who was very experienced and really one of the most outstanding instructors I've ever worked with as a student or supervisor and had the perfect personality/demeanor for the task (thoughtful, empathetic, and conscientious). So while not what we'd planned, I think that day worked well.
One of my favorite moments was in the afternoon of a rainy day, when the clinic participants stayed out until 2pm having a blast on the softening snow, then came in for cocktails. We gathered around a tuning bench and I taught those who were interested how to do basic edge care and waxing while we all chatted about the day. The format sort of developed organically: less a formal "lesson" and more just socializing, so that those who were uninterested in tuning were enjoying themselves as well. I loved spending time with the groups at the end of the day because the informal socializing gave me incredible insight into how we experience clinics and instruction, what brings women to skiing, what sort of plateaus we get stuck on, and on and on and on. It was an amazingly rich experience.
In anonymous follow-up surveys, we were able to tweak a few things (timing of after-lunch stuff to get back on the snow more quickly, streamlining logistics to make things run more smoothly and efficiently, e.g.).
So all in all, it was a successful, if lightly-attended, first run. I'm back to teaching high school history this fall, but definitely keep your eyes out to see what they decide to offer next season.
Thanks again for all of your help!