A Woman wins the Orteig Prize

The Orteig Prize IOTL famously went to Charles Lindbergh, for his solo transatlantic flight, and no woman even competed for it. But woman aviators were not unknown at the time. WI a woman won this prize instead of Lindbergh? Maybe a precocious Amelia Earhart (who IOTL took up solo flying after being a passenger on a 1928 crossing), maybe someone else, like the British Amy Johnson (who would also have to take a precocious interest). Maybe have Harriet Quimby not die before WWI and, despite getting on in years, have her be the one to do it.

Would the cultural reaction to a woman pilot differ from the one Lindbergh got?

EDIT: for bonus points, what if it’s Bessie Coleman (a Black woman pilot)?
 
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EDIT: for bonus points, what if it’s Bessie Coleman (a Black woman pilot)?
An earlier and higher trajectory for both civil rights and gender equality.

As it was, toward the end of WWII replacement soldiers were being sent to U.S. military units on a desegregated basis. If only that had happened earlier, . . . we’d have much smoother and easier civil rights where it’s just considered the way things are now. And the legal changes would be primarily legislative, and only a little bit judicial.

And our OTL would be considered quasi- dystopian and borderline ASB! :p

As far as how it affected the individual winner, Charles Lindbergh was swamped by a huge amount of publicity, more than is healthy for any one human being. I hope Bessie would have a strong family structure with most of the adults having good maturity skills, in order to help her withstand and deflect this onslaught.
 
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