Calamity Janeway had a LOT of problems. But yeah, there was much attention made (and script writing) about this being a woman captain--much more than was done with Sisko being a black captain.
Both in real life and in ST, you'd think having a black captain shouldn't make much difference, and for the most part this was true.
Both in real life and in ST, you'd think having a woman captain shouldn't make much difference, but it did.