Sandy Metz, of "Practical Object Oriented Design in Ruby" [1] fame made a comment about this on The Bikeshed[2] recently. She stated that she refuses to make reference to gender when she is giving her talks, though her gender is ultimately what got her the opportunity to write a book and talk in the first place.

Ultimately she is regarded as an amazing teacher and a dynamic speaker, not because she is a woman in tech.

[1] http://www.poodr.com/ [2] http://bikeshed.fm/70