I think that your small victory is a grand one. Many times where I
work (I am a server) I am referred to as girl by my customers.
Usually I ignore them until they can remember my name or get my
attention in a more appropriate manner. But as someone else
mentioned I am still one of the girls in my family. I am 20 and
second to youngest, therefore I am still and never will be above a
girl. Not because they are trying to hold me back but because of the
simple fact that there are three females in me family and we are my
parents little girls forever.