On the contrary, I think being a woman probably helped Noether's fame. Off the top of my head, I can think of precisely two algebraists: the woman (Noether) and the guy who was killed in a duel (Galois).
I was hoping someone would mention him. His life story though, like Galois, is a painful read; just when his work was beginning to get recognized, he had contracted a fatal disease (TB).
So you think that being a woman helped her fame, when the whole point of the report was how little she is known, even in many mathematics circles?
As other commenters have mentioned, she probably isn't as unknown as the article suggests. I'd have thought that her symmetry work is pretty well-known in the field of Physics, and credited under her name.