First woman to do something

This might be controversial...

This season of amazing race was won by an all-girl team for the first time. They seemed to be making a big deal about it. I really didn't care about that. Although it seems like it's a case of being proud of women, there's another less positive theory.

In the most basic sense, if you are considering "first woman to do " to be something really special, that's pretty directly saying that you feel women are inferior in some way. If you really felt they were equal, then you would only care about "first person..." and not differentiate men and women.

(ok yeah some cases in the past there were distinct obstructions for one gender or another, but I don't consider things like amazing race to be like that.)