You want to go and check out the "Femmes Fatales" series we did in the ~Music Territory. Use the search function to find all the "Femmes Fatales" posts. It was a series we did celebrating women in music.

Bands like, Epica, Nightwish, Evanescence, Delaine, Amaranthe, Ad Infinitum. Lots and lots of symphonic metal, plus women from lots of different genres.

Check some of those out.