Female Prog Artists Recommendations.

I'd also recommend Bat for Lashes, not strictly prog but you might like her.

If you're fond of jazz fusion then I heartily recommend the work of piano wiz Hiromi Uehara:

if you are willing to go into jazz I suggest the all-female band Five Play led by drummer Sherrie Maricle.

here a track from their album "On the Brink":

the album features Karolina Strassmayer as one of the two sax and flute players. she is one of only 2 female members of the WDR Big Band (arguably the best big band in the world). she is married to drummer Drori Mondlak and co-leads the band Klaro! with him. since I never leave out an occasion to mention Barbara Dennerlein: Drori Mondlak was the drummer in her band for some time, and at one festival where both she and Klaro! appeared Karolina joined Barbara and her husband on stage; here a track from that occasion:

I like Bat for Lashes too. I have all of her albums on CD, which reminds me, I had an eyelash sticking in my eye overnight while I was sleeping, which drove me batty when I woke up. My eyes were watering nearly all day yesterday, although that could have been because I was listening to sad songs which make me cry.  

I was just listening to her duet album with Chick. Absolutely stunning, and they had BARELY WORKED TOGETHER up till then. They met for the first time just recently before playing that night at Blue Note Tokyo. He heard her by accident!

I'll include it in the next CC poll; there's a hint for the theme.