Women are rare in the world of arbitration. All disciplines and all levels combined France has 43000 women on 210000 referees, a rate of about 20%. In the high level they do not represent more than 16% of the referees. According to the ministerial list of referees and high level judges in 2011 / 2012, the number of licensees in a discipline and the number of referees are not correlated.

For example, in football women represent 3,2% of the licensees but are 23% among high level referees. In riding they represent 81,3% of the licensees but only count 30% of referees. Some federations are very late in the race for parity between referees: fencing (3 on 27 is 11%), handball (2 on 15 or 13%), judo (1 on 6 is

16%), wrestling (1 on 7 is 14%), rugby (1 on 9 or 11%), skiing (1 on 9 or 11%) and tennis (7 on 58 or 12%). Note that some disciplines have no female referee in their 2011 / 2012 squad, it is volleyball, archery, taekwondo, surfing, rugby league French boxing and bowls.

Franck Binisti

Franck Binisti discovers the padel at the Club des Pyramides in 2009 in the Paris region. Since padel is part of his life. You often see him touring France going to cover the major events of padel French.

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