Hive Mind Question - Female Characters in Epic Fantasy

The fabulous Ken Scholes (Lamentation and the forthcoming Canticle) and I will be doing several reading/signing appearances together in late October/early November. Also, we'll be co-blogging on Borders Books Babel Clash blog from Sept 15 - 28 (yikes).

Anyway, having one brain to rub together between us, we're trying to get some of the material written in advance (what a concept), and one thing we're going to touch on is the presence of female characters in epic fantasy, or the lack thereof.

I...