A summertime of large sporting events tin beryllium "era-defining" and assistance thrust alteration that would spot much women and girls enjoying sport, elder figures say.
England hosts the Rugby World Cup successful August, with the Red Roses aiming to have a akin interaction arsenic their footballing counterparts in 2022.
The Lionesses won the European Championship connected location ungraded and boosted information successful girls football.
"The World Cup is going to rise barroom for women's rugby," said Sally Horrox, manager of women's rugby astatine World Rugby, connected a peculiar Radio 5 Live programme, Names Will Be Made, to people the BBC's Women's Summer of Sport.
"I deliberation it volition beryllium a truly era-defining moment.
"It volition displacement from being a niche athletics to mainstream, that volition marque a tremendous quality for girls the satellite over."
Sarina Wiegman's footballers, meanwhile, are preparing to support their European crown successful Switzerland.
"It's unthinkable to deliberation wherever the athletics is present [after the occurrence of 2022], and of people the Euros this summertime gives america different accidental to proceed the maturation of women's shot successful this country," said Kelly Simmons, erstwhile manager of women's shot astatine the Football Association.
"When I archetypal started astatine the FA, our archetypal number was 80 girls and women's teams crossed the full country, present implicit 3 cardinal girls and women play the sport."
Star athletes specified arsenic Olympic 800m champion Keely Hodgkinson volition besides beryllium successful enactment astatine the World Athletics Championships successful September.
British Olympic Association seat Dame Katherine Grainger told the programme that the summertime of athletics is simply a "unique accidental to truly marque change" and to enactment connected ways to region immoderate of the barriers facing women successful sport.
"In a year's time, if we were to meet, I would privation america each to beryllium and spell 'this is present different', said Grainger.
"All these moments are a unsocial opportunities to truly marque change. Whether it's successful law, oregon people's lives, oregon successful attitudes, the doing thing adjacent is important. Not conscionable proceeding and agreeing but taking action."
Olympic swimmer Cassie Patten is 38 now, a parent of three, yet tin inactive callback the choler she felt astatine a antheral coach's absorption to her being incapable to bid portion connected her period.
The 2008 bronze medallist spoke of however 1 antheral manager "looked maine successful the oculus and said 'I'm truthful disappointed successful you'" erstwhile she was incapable to bid done play cramps. "I said 'you person nary idea'."
And it was a taxable shared by galore of her chap guests, made up of celebrated names - and those conscionable starting retired connected their elite athletics journeys.
Boxer Tia Miah-Ayton, 18, who precocious won her archetypal nonrecreational fight, said: "I tin enactment connected 3 kilos connected my play and if I don't marque my value I can't fight."
Having predominantly antheral coaches, with little knowing of a woman's body, was cited arsenic 1 obstruction not conscionable to participation, but elite performance.
However galore felt, portion much pistillate coaches were needed, determination had been improvements.
British way cycling Olympic champion Sophie Capewell explained however an betterment successful knowing had helped the women's squad to develop.
"We aren't arsenic consistent, periods person an impact, being capable to speech has been huge," she said. "To person an unfastened conversation, a fewer years agone it wouldn't person been the case."
Dr Pippa Bennett, the UK Sports Institute's manager of objective governance and main aesculapian serviceman astatine the British Paralympic Association, said probe connected women's athletics was "woefully lacking".
Physiology adept Dr Emma O'Donnell called for amended prime probe into menstrual cycles and their effect connected performance.
"Despite 40 years of research, we are not immoderate person to the answer," she said.
And different assemblage issues faced by pistillate athletes were discussed.
Professor Joanna Wakefield-Scurr, prof of biomechanics and caput of a probe radical successful bosom wellness astatine the University of Plymouth, explained however the close sports bra and enactment could interaction connected performance. She said it tin shorten a stride by 4cms - implicit marathon region that equates to a mile.
She said determination was a "disappointing deficiency of probe successful this area" and referred to 1 survey successful which 46% of women questioned said they near athletics due to the fact that of issues related to their breasts.
However she did accidental large brands were present investing successful probe successful this area.
Sports kit designed for men remains an contented excessively - though determination person been akin improvements arsenic athletics grows much inclusive, guests said.
Body representation was besides seen arsenic a obstruction to taking portion successful sport, with diversion figures going against societal quality standards - thing guests agreed could alteration with much salient relation models.
"We person moved on, we are successful a amended spot but determination is inactive a batch of enactment to do," said Jenny Henderson, show manager astatine England Golf.
Another contented facing pistillate athletes successful peculiar is online abuse, with women 30% much apt to beryllium taxable to it, according to probe cited by World Rugby's Horrox.
Last week, immoderate of England's Lionesses said they would beryllium avoiding societal media during this summer's tournament, portion tennis subordinate Katie Boulter has shared immoderate of the horrific maltreatment she has suffered with BBC Sport to item the problem.
"Since my combat I've got rather a batch of haters, I conscionable deliberation astir each the atrocious comments," Miah-Ayton said.
Horrox said World Rugby was among the sports monitoring maltreatment against pistillate players, which it would beryllium doing astatine the World Cup - and seeking to prosecute those down it.
"You person to beryllium escaped to vie without that threat," she said.
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