The Well HQ series Ep1: The Female Fundamentals: Why PE and Sport is Failing Women and Girls

Описание: The real PE podcast introduces - The Well HQ series:
Half the Picture: What PE & Sport Gets Wrong for Girls — and How to Put It Right.
Episode 1 — The Female Fundamentals: Why PE and Sport is Failing Women and Girls
We know girls are dropping out of sport. We have the reports. We have the statistics. What we have been slower to confront is why — and what it tells us about a system that was never designed with girls in mind.
In the first episode of the series, Dr Emma Ross and Baz Moffat lay out the scale of the challenge with extraordinary clarity. Sixty-four per cent of girls who identified as sporty in primary school have dropped out of sport entirely by the time they leave secondary school. Only four per cent of women take part in organised sport. Just six per cent of sport and exercise science research has been conducted exclusively on women — meaning most of what coaches and teachers know about training, nutrition, recovery and injury is based on male bodies and applied wholesale to female ones.
Dr Emma Ross introduces what The Well HQ calls the female health fundamentals — breast health, menstrual health, pelvic health, nutrition and the psychological experience of growing up female in sporting environments — and explains why these are not fringe topics but the very foundations on which female participation stands or falls. Baz Moffat brings the story to life from her own years as an elite rower, where the marginal gains era had coaches obsessing over feathers in pillows and protein timing — while not a single sports bra made it into the kit bag.
The episode also explores why this knowledge has been so absent from coaching qualifications, PE degrees and teacher training — and the deeply entrenched societal discomfort around female bodies that keeps it that way. By the end, the picture is stark. But both guests make clear from the outset: the problem is well understood. What comes next is far more interesting.

About The Well HQ:
Founded in 2021 by Baz Moffat, Dr Bella Smith, and Dr Emma Ross, The Well HQ is a women’s health and wellness consultancy rooted in scientific evidence, real-life experience, and decades of expertise. The Well HQ turns science into practical action through bespoke educational resources, training programmes and strategic plans that help organisations create lasting, impactful change.
Learn more at thewell-hq.com.

Baz Moffat - Co-Founder and Chief Executive Officer
Baz Moffat is the CEO and co-founder of The Well HQ, a consultancy dedicated to changing the system around women and girls in sport, fitness and wellness. Drawing from her experience as a former Team GB rower and coach, she saw firsthand how a lack of female-specific training and support limits women’s potential. With over 20 years of experience in health, fitness, and high-performance environments, Baz is a prominent voice in the women’s health movement and advocates for closing the gender gap and creating meaningful change for women in sport and beyond.

Dr Emma Ross - Co-Founder and Chief Scientific Officer:
Dr Emma Ross is the Chief Scientific Officer and co-founder of The Well HQ, a consultancy dedicated to changing the system around women and girls in sport, fitness and wellness. With a career as a scientist, researcher, and practitioner, Emma was involved in the development of several breakthrough initiatives around women’s physiology and psychology in sports. She was the Head of Physiology of the English Institute of Sport for ten years, and led the sports scientists supporting Olympic and Paralympic athletes in Rio 2016.