It is obviously not the case that women are equal in our society. Additionally, then, my town shouldn't have a big placard that says "home of Olympic gold medal

It is obviously not the case that women are equal in our society. Additionally, then, my town shouldn't have a big placard that says "home of Olympic gold medalist [some person]" since obviously being from my town is equal to being from the one over. But we do typically care about these sorts of things, and we care about the oldest person to be president, the youngest, the first gay, Catholic, whatever, black president. We care about coincidences, streaks, and firsts of all manner and no one has to point out that that it doesn't matter "X will be the first foreign-born CEO" or whatever it is. To assert that being a woman specifically is not notable feels like it just serves to downplay people's accomplishments when those accomplishments are made by women.