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From a male's point of view (and a member of the same association as Juulie), there is a perception among many of the men in the association that women tend to advance faster in the association and get to the varsity level a lot faster than men with the same amount of experience. Whether this is due to women mainly being assigned to women's games, or the fact that the assignor wants to keep more women in the association, I am not sure. Most of the men in the association work both men's and women's games. Some of the women are good enough to work men's games, but I believe that most of the women get a women's only schedule. Camron would know better than I would. I know of one woman official in our association who is as good or better than at least 90% of the men in the association, and she does get men's varsity games. There are probably more, but I have not worked with them.
Personally I think women's games are harder to ref sometimes than men's games because they are reminiscent of maybe a boy's freshman game where there is more chaos than good play. Especially on rebounds, women tend to hold the ball at their waist rather than do something useful with the ball, and that invites all kinds of grabbing and hacking. However, some well played women's games are easier to work than men's games because the action tends to happen slower. Just my own observation.
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