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Its the same thing as working in the tech field. Finding a female tech in just about any high tech field is kind of hard. But what I tend to find is there are very few bad ones. In the 15 years Ive been doing computer tech work, I've only met a handful of female techs that have been in the field a while. And out of those, only 2 do I ever recall being poor techs. For a lot of the women in the field Ive encountered, most are highly defensive when I first meet them, most likely due to men beating them down or them having some sort of inferiority complex. (which of whom the root cause could most likely be traced back to early male chauvinism) A couple of which I had to end up telling, "You really need to relax a bit. No one is out to get you".
To answer your question.
1. There is some novelty to a female engineer in just about any technical field. The only real way to get this to change is to have a more even distribution of females in the industry.
2. You're always going to run into the chauvinist who thinks men can do anything better than women. Just know that they will get what they put out.
In the long run. You do what you do to the best of your ability, with a positive attitude and everything will for the most part work itself out.
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