Jocelyn Bell Burnell
Emilie du Chatelte
Esther Lederberg
Chien-Shiung Wu
Nettie Stevens
Mary Anning
Mileva Marić (Alberts 1st wife and mathematician)
Vera Rubin
...and as I was trying to find the correct spelling for Emilie's last name, I found this:
http://www.factmonster.com/spot/whmbios2.html
so I just stopped.
Luckily, our daughter is fascinated with math and science and her school teaches as much about the accomplishments of women in history (and LGBT people, and non-white people, and...) as the successes of their Euro-centric male counterparts. Then again, we homeschool. 
About Hopper though...I met her once, shortly before her death. We talked about plants & the local micro-climate, of all things. At the time all I knew of her was that she'd written COBOL...or so I thought. I later learned she was actually much more of a manager than a programmer. She headed the committee that oversaw the temporary group that did the programming (their work became permanent as such things often do), and she was instrumental in the government insisting that US Gov't computers run COBOL. But she didn't write a line of it. She also did not coin the term, "bug". It was used in that exact sense by Edison, among others.
And I'd be remiss if I didn't plug Adafruit (Ada as in Lovelace), the awesome arduino-&-other-microcontrollers web site & woman founded company. Their educational content is what sets them apart and will encourage the next generation of computer experts regardless of sex or gender. No connection, just happy customers but they are one reason my daughter is beginning to learn programming.
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