Amelia Earhart had a lasting affect on many people at the time. The most dominant of these would be women. Women, perhaps, were not the most respected gender. They could not occupy all the jobs that men could, so as Amelia flew across the Atlantic, women gained much respect. In the time after this event people respected women much more and many jobs only available to men became available to women too! So you could say that female rights was one of Amelia's biggest influences on the society of her time.