Aileron Drag mentioned the ATA - if you can find the TV documentary that was shown earlier in the year about their lady pilots, it's well worth a watch.
They showed astonishing skill - often single-handedly flying heavy bombers with no prior type training other than reading the handbook, often in marginal weather. Nearly as impressive is the modesty of those interviewed so many years later, who saw it as just "doing their bit". It's impossible to imagine racking up so many type in your logbook with so little conversion training, crew support etc these days. Humbling (and inspiring) stuff.
And from a modern perspective (I'm a bloke by the way!), the radio is a great leveller - you can tell if the pilot or ATC is male or female, but that's about it. You can't tell age or appearance, and you have no idea of skills - the person could have 50 hours or 5,000 hours experience, the pilot could be Captain or FO; the ATCO could be a trainee or have 30 years experience etc., so assumptions based on gender seem to be fortunately rare (at least at the operational end).