As long as you meet the experience requirements i'm sure you will be considered the same as anyone else.
EK has a few female pilots now, the ones i've spoken with haven't seemed to indicate they had a rough time of it. 95% of the people you fly with at EK are expats here anyway, so you'd have the same treatment that you could expect in the UK once online. If you've dealt with the military then EK should be a breeze.