Reffing women's basketball

[Ref in PA]

I will give you my observations of my chapter. I do boys and girls HS officiating. On the girls side, there seems to be a little less experience and ego, but more willingness to learn. There is a perception that Boys Varsity is "where it is at". We also have refs who only do boys games for whatever reason. But we have vasity refs who do a poor job on both the boys side and girls side.

In my chapter I have observed that a female ref will be on the "fast track" to getting girls varsity games and sometimes the inexperience shows. In fact I observed this with some of the girls playoff games. Maybe that is sour grapes on my part, but I did observe a couple games (as an impartial observer - I was there to watch other refs in my chapter) which I thought the reffing was sub-par, especially for a playoff game (maybe the whole crew, one female and two males, had a bad game or maybe it is who you know).

One last thing to note, most schools pay the same for boys and girls but there are some who pay less for girls.

Now I realize this was a question for NCAA and Pro ball, but since you are asking the question, I have observe similar tendencies on the HS level.