I feel like there is something off with the framing of this question. My area of study is 1680 to 1740 by the way, so this doesn't apply to any pirates beyond that.

In my period, there was Anne Bonny and Mary Read and one other case in regards to women who were part of pirate crews. That's all that is documented. Each one is extremely exceptional. In two of the cases, John Rackham had not been that successful of a pirate captain before his final voyage with the two now famous "female pirates" Bonny and Read. This likely contributed to Rackham never having a crew bigger than a dozen men during that last voyage, so Rackham needed everyone they could get and thus the two women were allowed on as crew. Then there's the case of Mary Critchett, who was part of a crew since it was really just six convicts (including herself) in Virginia escaping by stealing a vessel and running to sea (they never had a chance to go and capture any additional vessels or recruit more members, they were captured before even getting out of the Chesapeake). There is also a case involving a woman charged with piracy, but she never did commit any piracy was let go since she was just the wife of a member of a small gang of men trying to start a pirate career and she just followed her husband (with children in tow as well) to sea. That group also made little progress before being brought to justice and never got outside of North Carolina's Outer Banks.

During the late seventeenth and early eighteenth centuries in the Atlantic World, it's hard to use the term "female pirate" without misrepresenting the situation I think. There were three women and the main reason they were there was because those crews were tiny and just starting out. Beyond these exceptional cases, pirates were male. The maritime world of that time was highly masculine. There are many more examples of women being the victims of pirates (both physical assault and rape) than being pirates themselves.

As for the three cases and gaining respect, in the case of Bonny and Read, the crew's tolerated the two being part of the crew because of relationship status the women had with particular crewmembers (ie. Bonny was the lover of the crew's captain, Rackham) and the fact that they had a small crew and needed all the help they could get, even from two women who have yet to demonstrate any maritime skills in the historical record. In the case of Critchett, the tolerance came mainly from circumstances of having too few people in their gang and the connection of being convicts that escaped together.

For more detailed information, including references to sources (and with answers to questions I know will follow this post concerning what I said), I have a two part article on my site.
Part One of my article, Anne Bonny and Mary Read: Female Pirates and Maritime Women covers the history of Anne Bonny and Mary Read, what the historical record actually says, and how others have messed it up in the past almost three centuries.
Part Two of my article Anne Bonny and Mary Read: Female Pirates and Maritime Women Looks at the other cases of women and their interactions with pirates and what women did in general within the maritime world of the period to add better context to their interaction with pirates.