Athena Andreadis just edited an anthology (The Other Half of the Sky) featuring women protagonists in science fiction, and many of the contributors are up-and-coming or established women writers in the genre, including Aliette de Bodard, who was much-nominated recently, and Nisi Shawl and Alex Dally McFarlane. My own reading of all these writers is very limited--but the anthology itself seems like a great thing.

Women seem better represented and better acknowledged in fantasy, maybe?