There's a generation of female coders coming out of NYC soon -- seeing half my Nature of Code in Processing class being female and a lot of my female classmates working with OpenProcessing, Pocode, etc. Likewise in DC there are already a lot of up-and-coming tough-as-nails journalistas starting to run stuff. I think they're a little further ahead than the female coders right now though. You'll see this stuff happen in east coast cities first since the ratios are so favorable for highly-educated, intelligent, fiercely independent women there.